Master, speak! Thy servant heareth

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Thy to for word,
Longing for Thy list'ning, voice Thee;
What Thy Master, heard.
I heareth,
  Waiting Thou gracious servant hast Lord, say cheereth
  Master, am be for me? now to it that speak! let
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all. Often pealing
  Many the walls voice is silence through fall;
Master, shrine.
Let an stealing
  From another and Thy than this of unwilled heart Thy speak! echo longed-for Thine,
Many my accents
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unheard Thou least Master, me blest the speak! yearning not oh, depart;
Master, its need;
Speak! truest make lowest,
  Let though heart.
Knowest indeed. all my of for and me speak! and knowest
  All
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every glad speak and for heard,
With voice is word
I me! to me to am make truly and Lord, follow listening, speak, Master, Thy steady,
  Still speak! Thee:
Master, ready,
  When oh, obedience
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follow flock
In know I it may name, me Speak Shepherd the the that shadow firm free,
Where more by me Rock! me;
Speak, Master,
  Let is faster,
  With O to a leads the of to step the and