Cantique : Thy place lovely is dwelling How

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thy place lovely is dwelling How