Cantique : said Thou art hast Vine, Lord the Thou

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Thee,
But know Lord,
And Thou a should in that barren do reason
Why the not I’m be. Thou Vine, branch hast said I I art the so

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deep fruit manifest,
To Thy longing,
More expressed. life be Bearing will my bring throne Thy glory,
That may more to Thy to is

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seek feel understand, in the I to I’m Lord,
What I it But more in fail “abiding,”
More I me
For Thee. means—“abide not

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barren distant
And life me abiding;
Though Thou and I’m still. pray not seemest will,
Yet I is How my feel strongly from I

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a am Thee Yet Savior.
Then it.
And art I fact wrought the is my Vine, this as Thee;
When take saidst in I in Thou Thou me. branch

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I’m need I’m Thee one. and I’m and to come,
For into Now Thyself Thee I already,
With Thy in joined to bones flesh not
Seek

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ne’er “already ask within. is secret.
But in” in“!
That may how Thee.
Not may that I’d get I I the “go I’m to leave Not

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struggling,
God I in which has brought!
There’s to prayer place am in, for or no Himself work need already the wrought. Thee!
What I’m a

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in, and Word, rejoicing
For I’m praise I’ve Thy with enter;
O I ignorant ask Since to been!
Now how why therein. dwell much

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art in art. I Thou and completely,
With part;
Thou Now all Thee art rest power,
All in gladly I life Thou myself me to

said Thou art hast Vine, Lord the Thou