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grow Cross,
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for which the while Cross sin us. our Gazing on laid love bore Cross thus;
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Love see,
Learn thus gazing Thy we the
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serve to we deny;
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Here learn love and we give,
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liberty
And of free;
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as hopes can,
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There must our our earliest end. our we
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amid Thy of complete,
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