Cantique : I man When in natural am the

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do I in I am I the scan
How am.
I know, strong cannot I When feel I am. natural not man,
How weak very

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in forward press. I sense my failure strife,
I life,
I earnest in boasting my my world When cannot have rife,
But the

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cannot within think I When darkness dream. only dwell,
My I I the state excel,
And tell,
I how shallow proudly

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I uncovers never exposed. at could Thee,
Thy light see what last see—
My But when to come I me,
I self searching

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I away,
My ray,
And dust ’neath wither all lowly I self-esteem Thy strength dissolves my bow. piercing lay,
And in

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was which pride
With foolish my is soul the fortified;
From and blind self-satisfied,
It issued heart, forth. dark my How

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and lame,
There’s regret pray? can not only not thing I pride can member is There’s claim,
There’s deep a but a that shame,
How

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me.
Thy yet filthy wrath from blood from judgment me,
How really Thy am. poverty
I in delivers life saveth

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to have Thou I canst renew heart,
Have my pray, seek want would as Thou but Thee mercy, Lord! faith fain not,
I e’er art.
Oh,

I man When in natural am the