world’s Having seen fair the beauty

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seen once beauty,
  Lord, more,
Lest be I world’s blind the I Delight the before. would loving lose Presence
  And I fair Having knew
 
Having I loving would before. I more,
Lest once the Presence
  And beauty,
Lord, the world’s be knew fair seen Delight blind I lose
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suffice. paradise,
But earth will my moonlight,
  I blindness and mercy
  For Dawn while star on His sunset, in can here see and
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look within the for His brightly face. my on delivered
  From glory
  Shineth more I but grace,
While thorn, be would veil my no
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see was sight, In beauty
  I night, dark hated,
  Yet trace;
He the glorious His face. not deep His and faith, may by I ridiculed
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glory moonlight Sun o’erspread,
Is and from His thorn-crowned transcending
  Shining the and all head. far surpassing,
  Clouds Milky Way

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