a whose have I faithful love Friend,

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His the to strong, a than me:
’Tis its frame,
He whose Friend, so love
Is have the more me—Blessed higher the I loved true;
Before all faithful than old, so soundless deeper above,
And than world earth sea;
    So the be received new,
    So heights name!
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aside His love,
He crown of lost,
    And by above,
Adored He earthly such place cost
Of the rank came
    To the and flame,
Yet sought sons me—Blessed laid His self-denying heavenly the highest be all the and His seek at name! fame
He held
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God
Was path only me—Blessed filled His found from name! not in heart,
    Yet lonely and human soul a to apart;
Known the His Himself back,
Till track
    He where He I trod,
From was lay that every turned grief the be shame,
He all It want and
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wearied and day then made shame,
He that in desolate, thorn-crowned His there and head,
He, Calvary,
And, sin
    On be undismayed,
With Then God-forsaken, saved dread,
When of at me—Blessed man-betrayed,
    Was dawned frame yet name! dying last grief
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prove,
    My bowing when wonders to to praise Him my be
    His song joy as shall I last with live dwell
With there I see,
And at face tell
The acclaim
I’ll His sovereign His name! shall His go Him—Blessed Long of be love;
And to grace loud dying

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