world’s fair Having seen the beauty

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

was born had sight. who author, her been blind, This its written hymn gained after shortly