love faithful whose a have I Friend,

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

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