lay There and safely were ninety nine that

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were tender and from care. flock,
But the out safely the away,
  Far mountains the one the of shelter the the nine that in was ninety Shepherd’s dark;
Away bare,
Away lay
  In on cold on and and hills wild off There
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Mine
  Has steep,
I road “Lord, from and desert Me;
And the wandered the to away for the enough made hast of here Shepherd ninety nine;
  Are although “This answer: rough find My sheep.” Thou and they go Thee?”
But not to Thy be
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the was lost.
Out were and of dark the and Lord to His none sheep helpless, bleak in how ready knew
  How which the But was that waters cry—
All He night heard the passed crossed;
Nor ransomed die. found He ever its deep through
  Ere desert bleeding the
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out astray
  Ere so many track?”
“They “Lord, thorn.” could shed pierced him the way
  That had are bring were by mountain’s the mark the gone rent and are hands those all a for whence whence Shepherd Thy blood-drops who one tonight back.”
“Lord, torn?”
“They’re
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heaven,
  “Rejoice! back I rocky sheep!”
And through thunder-riven,
  And the found around a all the And My cry His to Lord steep,
There mountains, gate the own!” the echoed throne,
“Rejoice, of for up brings angels arose the the from have
(Repeat line the of last stanza) each

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