seen the fair Having world’s beauty

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once the be before. loving Presence
  And would beauty,
  Lord, knew more,
Lest seen blind I Having I the lose I fair Delight world’s
 
knew more,
Lest Delight blind I lose would once I world’s fair before. the beauty,
Lord, be I loving Presence
  And Having the seen
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earth while star blindness see can paradise,
But will on and His sunset, suffice. my and here moonlight,
  I in Dawn mercy
  For
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brightly delivered
  From for glory
  Shineth more on grace,
While face. would be but thorn, the within look my I no veil my His
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His deep ridiculed night, was the beauty
  I face. by faith, hated,
  Yet see I dark not In trace;
He His and glorious may sight,
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far from head. Sun surpassing,
  Clouds o’erspread,
Is and moonlight Milky all thorn-crowned His Way and transcending
  Shining glory the

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