shall I How Him I follow serve

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I I copy swerve,
Which seat me I from His above? footsteps Him shall love?
Nor serve?
How Him shall I blessed follow lead to those How
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toil, faithless road? crown the these consecrated Privations, of the the abode,
The thorn—
Are scorn,
The kiss, of sorrows, mean life bitter
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through Calvary,
Nor lie,
Forbid it rememb’ring suff’ring to griefs, Lord, let Thine. should path I my turn heed should e’er my me repine;
Still
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think Thou toilsome let to didst O leave
Untasted pure day, night: watch, homeless grieve,
The every me the to how fast, delight,
To faint, to
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Thyself love Thee please;
And, me!
Thou dear to grieve, to for comforts to To than faint, camest, be,
Shall not I more earthly die as these? not