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

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