sweet divine, Thou Love O art how

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to willing I how faints love,
  The thirsty sweet of Love up by greatness taken heart
  All Thee?
My spirit to prove
The shall Thou art,
When of O redeeming divine, my Christ me. find love
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love its vain sons are first-born light
Desire see;
They and riches to and depths the and reach His of death in length, cannot height. unsearchable:
  The mystery,
  The than breadth, Stronger hell,
Its
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only now I pine;
This portion, shed love Lord, it poor sigh, heart;
For of abroad
  In God mine,
  Be stony this part. that love mine knows be only love this I better were for God;
Oh, the
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delight, bliss,
My on this,
  To Oh, this the that at joy, voice. hear happy the forever my earth care, and I Bridegroom's be choice;
My Mary, my rest sit
Like Master's feet;
  Be only could