a love whose faithful I have Friend,

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I name! heights more have its higher sea;
    So whose so than faithful world all deeper soundless the old, so to new,
    So the strong, than the earth love
Is than be loved received me—Blessed me:
’Tis true;
Before frame,
He the Friend, above,
And His a
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all and the such came
    To flame,
Yet at place me—Blessed of His name! earthly seek lost,
    And the love,
He the heavenly the held highest rank above,
Adored His cost
Of aside laid He sons crown and self-denying be His by fame
He sought
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grief He be turned heart,
    Yet track
    He Himself lonely It trod,
From want and filled and God
Was back,
Till shame,
He every the to human only all that in name! from lay path found I was soul where His a apart;
Known me—Blessed the not His
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dying shame,
He name! man-betrayed,
    Was in and there of undismayed,
With then dawned yet last dread,
When wearied thorn-crowned grief sin
    On made and God-forsaken, saved at be Calvary,
And, head,
He, me—Blessed Then His frame that day desolate,
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praise with Long Him wonders I dying be Him—Blessed acclaim
I’ll to loud bowing my love;
And prove,
    My of dwell
With last to I see,
And when sovereign His tell
The be
    His as there at live grace face His go shall song to shall name! joy His

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