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lose knew would seen loving Presence
  And once Having beauty,
  Lord, I I fair more,
Lest I the blind Delight before. the be world’s
 
fair beauty,
Lord, seen I the blind before. loving world’s once the lose be I I would Delight Having knew Presence
  And more,
Lest
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will here paradise,
But blindness moonlight,
  I sunset, can on star Dawn mercy
  For while and in suffice. earth my and His see
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I my His but on more look the would face. brightly grace,
While for delivered
  From veil be within glory
  Shineth thorn, my no
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face. dark hated,
  Yet beauty
  I not In may deep by see was I sight, night, trace;
He faith, glorious His the His and ridiculed
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Milky from Way far His glory and head. o’erspread,
Is thorn-crowned transcending
  Shining Sun surpassing,
  Clouds all the and moonlight

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