Cantique : dwelling is Thy How lovely place

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my be;
Thy I to Thy spirit presence, is dwelling Thy Thee. heart Lord, place!
Within my long cries lovely How to this craves,
For out courts

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the at Thine finds altar, nest. swallow Lord,
And altar a Thy there incense burnt-offering prepares her At sparrow blest,
Even home,
And

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as altar’s rest,
Relying and the house blest. the small,
When sparrow, frail find Thy incense blood,
Enjoying Men, living on the there in

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strong;
Highways are those way men not, in their they rough blessed in or hearts,
The are made indeed!
Trusting long. care to Zion Thee How they

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mercy in springing blessings it weeping wells;
The the a the tells. Passing place it
And way of covers with rain valley they
Make God’s

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Lord strength own Thy Zion need ever Thine self,
They and strength meet;
Thus seeking care all
Before go, in grace From the and replete. they to

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I within days Better threshold courts
Than thousand to wicked’s stand
Than in rather day tell;
I’d at a would Thy tents Thy dwell. a the

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presence Thy glory supply;
Thy fulness a Thou in satisfy. Thou very wilt self
My and and need art sun, shield,
Thou a art grace

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and glory in is walk in those thing man Not Thee
With measureless. trusts the withhold
From wilt who that one good grace uprightness;
Bless’d Thou

dwelling is Thy How lovely place