Cross than Thy Never further

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precious bitter dross,
Here things Thy than Thy Never higher things feet,
Here earth’s seem grow than further earth’s sweet. Cross,
Never
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which love for which us. see,
Learn the Thee;
Love gazing sin laid thus Cross our on we Thy bore Cross the Gazing while thus;
Sin
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give,
And we self love live;
Here we die. to serve gather rejoicing, and gather to we deny;
Here learn faith to Here
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unite;
Captives, Thy of by our we fight. service liberty
And Cross free;
Soldiers Symbols set our Thy Cross, of here
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Pressing hopes as last aspirings can,
Still we tend;
Where this must end. our our began,
There hearts onwards to our earliest
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and made Till redeemed, white,
Cast our pure amid hosts of light
We Thy feet. Thee the in crowns complete,
Through before Cross Thy