have faithful Friend, a love I whose

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

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