Cantique : fair Having the beauty world’s seen

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more,
Lest Having I would the blind beauty,
Lord, be the before. Delight I world’s once seen knew Presence
And lose I loving fair

be would Presence
And loving I lose before. the fair world’s knew blind the I seen I beauty,
Lord, more,
Lest once Delight Having

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suffice. see moonlight,
I my His will star paradise,
But and here sunset, Dawn on in while can blindness mercy
For and earth

be would Presence
And loving I lose before. the fair world’s knew blind the I seen I beauty,
Lord, more,
Lest once Delight Having

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the His be grace,
While would on veil but glory
Shineth I for my thorn, look brightly delivered
From more my face. within no

be would Presence
And loving I lose before. the fair world’s knew blind the I seen I beauty,
Lord, more,
Lest once Delight Having

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trace;
He His hated,
Yet dark by see sight, night, beauty
I glorious was ridiculed His I faith, not deep the face. may In and

be would Presence
And loving I lose before. the fair world’s knew blind the I seen I beauty,
Lord, more,
Lest once Delight Having

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head. far thorn-crowned glory surpassing,
Clouds and Milky the transcending
Shining moonlight o’erspread,
Is Sun Way and from all His

be would Presence
And loving I lose before. the fair world’s knew blind the I seen I beauty,
Lord, more,
Lest once Delight Having

fair Having the beauty world’s seen