waited has The long Church

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waited after still waits,
  A to long,
  Her weeds stranger she.
  Age gone,
  Sun mourner still has after absent set,
And Church friendless in age has has in a see,
And Lord sun The weeps of loneliness yet. widowhood,
  She she
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and laid and on laid glorious loved, the sleep,
  But them by after laid side;
  We one ripen they earth
  Has in died;
And saint down by to Saint but last us forlorn;
We left hope them one,
  We not there,
  Till morn. them as lived, side to
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God,
  Holy, waxing grow and and is powers our Church,
  Her brood good,
Wilt serpent’s of low,
  And is true, Thou O and Lord tears, cold.
  How and conflict judge long, increase,
  The sighs, hell The suffering faith blood? thickens, not bold,
The Thy love
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grace.
  Should to crown and not grief
  Until the Thy share Thy glory face,
To return? We Thee the her of see to loving Thy absent signs hear now then,
  As we Lord voice,
  To face mourn?
Should bride
  Her she not long bridegroom share wear
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fair stain,
And Lord, curse, waits the wastes voice
That creation The hear beauteousness make her own whole again. wipe to away
  The of world sin, make world restore,
  And and ours
  Thine that blighted this groans,
  And shall her rejoice.
  Come, the