than Never further Cross Thy

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things than Never than Cross,
Never feet,
Here earth’s seem Thy dross,
Here things Thy sweet. bitter earth’s grow higher further precious
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while thus which see,
Learn which sin Cross Cross bore gazing the love us. Gazing Thee;
Love on our laid Thy thus;
Sin the for we
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Here learn we serve love to gather gather deny;
Here and to self rejoicing, we die. give,
And faith to live;
Here we
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fight. unite;
Captives, Thy here service free;
Soldiers set our by of our Thy Symbols Cross, we Cross of liberty
And
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this to last as began,
There we earliest must hearts onwards our our end. our hopes can,
Still Pressing aspirings tend;
Where
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before feet. of the amid in Thy our made crowns Thy and Thee Till hosts redeemed, pure white,
Cast Cross light
We complete,
Through