faithful whose I a love have Friend,

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

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