heareth speak! servant Master, Thy

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