seen Having beauty world’s fair the

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

who had written after hymn her sight. its author, This blind, born was shortly gained been