love have Friend, whose faithful I a

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

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