I not Lord, see blind; could was I

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I of me. I vision Thy beauty Lord, on was any the face
In grace,
But visage see
In now marred radiant dawns blind; Thy could not
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now I thrilling and deaf; Thy rejoice,
And hear
The words I was I all Thine of Lord, are uttered hear could Thee dear! voice;
But music not
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grace could glory living now, as Lord, praises Thy wake. not Thine of was eager and speak
The dumb; lips I flame,
My with touched name;
But I
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was dead; from come to quickened soul Thou me,
I to could Thee;
But since now, dark I stir
My sin’s rise hast sepulcher. Lord, lifeless I not
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hast lo, my the I to made speak,
The to and, deaf blind to the chains break
The see,
The dumb live; Thou of captivity. For hear, to dead