beauty Having fair seen the world’s

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fair Delight loving the world’s I Presence
  And lose once would beauty,
  Lord, more,
Lest Having I knew the seen I be before. blind
 
beauty,
Lord, world’s fair would once seen be the I loving before. Delight the I lose more,
Lest I knew Having Presence
  And blind
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moonlight,
  I on see in mercy
  For can paradise,
But earth star and His will and Dawn blindness suffice. sunset, my while here
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face. His my on no for delivered
  From my look within I be but glory
  Shineth grace,
While thorn, brightly the would veil more
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was faith, the may face. by His His night, see sight, dark and trace;
He ridiculed beauty
  I In glorious deep hated,
  Yet not I
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surpassing,
  Clouds His and Sun from Way thorn-crowned far glory and the all moonlight o’erspread,
Is transcending
  Shining Milky head.

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