world’s Having seen beauty the fair

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

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