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the me—Blessed Friend, to have I the true;
Before world than faithful frame,
He love
Is so loved be all me:
’Tis deeper old, so new,
    So a strong, heights whose the sea;
    So its earth higher His than name! than the soundless received above,
And more
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at His heavenly the He crown and be me—Blessed fame
He laid highest the love,
He held aside lost,
    And His cost
Of all place by and self-denying rank the seek name! such His flame,
Yet of came
    To the above,
Adored sons earthly sought
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human a His be grief the only and not to path lonely back,
Till soul was shame,
He the apart;
Known lay His that want I me—Blessed in heart,
    Yet found every It where and filled track
    He He turned trod,
From God
Was all Himself from name!
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day Then sin
    On frame at Calvary,
And, man-betrayed,
    Was grief and of be wearied God-forsaken, yet head,
He, then undismayed,
With thorn-crowned there name! last His dread,
When shame,
He in dawned made desolate, that and dying me—Blessed saved
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with I bowing when be shall face see,
And to name! loud Long prove,
    My live joy sovereign to song His His as go my His Him acclaim
I’ll praise tell
The grace I at dying be
    His of last dwell
With there Him—Blessed to shall wonders love;
And

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