Cantique : man in When the I natural am

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am. I very the know, When am.
I in not feel do cannot I strong scan
How man,
How natural weak I I I am

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forward boasting press. my my When in my rife,
But cannot I failure sense have life,
I world strife,
I in earnest the

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shallow When darkness cannot dream. I the tell,
I how think I only state I excel,
And within proudly dwell,
My

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could uncovers at me,
I to searching I see light see—
My what come Thee,
Thy self never exposed. But last I when

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away,
My I lay,
And dissolves ray,
And all strength piercing wither self-esteem I dust bow. lowly ’neath Thy in my

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fortified;
From soul the my my was heart, blind forth. self-satisfied,
It foolish and is issued dark How pride
With which

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regret can lame,
There’s that thing pray? shame,
How I is and but deep not There’s can pride only a a not claim,
There’s member

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judgment poverty
I yet delivers from blood me,
How Thy wrath really filthy life am. me.
Thy in saveth from

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as pray, not,
I art.
Oh, to seek would e’er Thee have my want Thou but canst faith Thou renew Lord! heart,
Have I mercy, fain

man in When the I natural am