Cantique : Having the world’s beauty seen fair

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fair Presence
And blind lose Having once seen world’s before. I would the be more,
Lest the Delight beauty,
Lord, loving knew I I

beauty,
Lord, I seen more,
Lest Presence
And the lose fair the before. I knew loving world’s once blind be Delight Having would I

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sunset, mercy
For suffice. while paradise,
But my and star here can blindness on in moonlight,
I Dawn see earth His and will

beauty,
Lord, I seen more,
Lest Presence
And the lose fair the before. I knew loving world’s once blind be Delight Having would I

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be grace,
While more thorn, I the His delivered
From glory
Shineth veil my look within would no but brightly for on my face.

beauty,
Lord, I seen more,
Lest Presence
And the lose fair the before. I knew loving world’s once blind be Delight Having would I

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In faith, deep I may and hated,
Yet by sight, His see was face. night, dark glorious the beauty
I trace;
He not His ridiculed

beauty,
Lord, I seen more,
Lest Presence
And the lose fair the before. I knew loving world’s once blind be Delight Having would I

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and moonlight the head. and surpassing,
Clouds far His Way o’erspread,
Is from transcending
Shining all glory Milky thorn-crowned Sun

beauty,
Lord, I seen more,
Lest Presence
And the lose fair the before. I knew loving world’s once blind be Delight Having would I

Having the world’s beauty seen fair