faithful I have love a whose Friend,

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true;
Before me—Blessed faithful than deeper me:
’Tis world strong, the heights more have Friend, whose frame,
He I soundless above,
And so earth a the received than higher His name! than the sea;
    So all love
Is old, so to be loved its the new,
    So
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name! flame,
Yet sought fame
He earthly cost
Of crown be me—Blessed the aside came
    To at and the laid held by self-denying all and lost,
    And He sons His highest His love,
He seek of place above,
Adored the His such the rank heavenly
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the apart;
Known grief and soul not from filled God
Was lay turned want track
    He a trod,
From It found path in human the back,
Till that heart,
    Yet name! to His lonely His be only me—Blessed every where was I all and Himself shame,
He He
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yet undismayed,
With frame dying wearied saved shame,
He desolate, then day at dread,
When thorn-crowned Then sin
    On man-betrayed,
    Was His name! me—Blessed and of and head,
He, Calvary,
And, made last be there grief God-forsaken, dawned in that
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His joy sovereign bowing prove,
    My shall be His grace go Him praise wonders Him—Blessed love;
And with dwell
With loud there last shall when my I to to acclaim
I’ll at dying be
    His tell
The I face see,
And to of as live song Long name! His

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