faithful whose a have I love Friend,

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

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