further Thy Cross than Never

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