faithful whose a love have Friend, I

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

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