Cantique : I in natural the am man When

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I in natural the am man When