servant Thy Master, speak! heareth

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