seen Having fair world’s beauty the

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

been who author, born gained had was blind, shortly after written its This hymn her sight.