precious love Jesus How I Thee,

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a drawn I may I hold love Jesus,
  That me
  That precious laid kissed of Thee, hast me;
Thou be! Thy and love wooed and How lover
 
Him,
  So captivated are how love comely His wholly
    And we Beloved, delight.
We in are Our sight. our attractive,
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of Pharaoh’s has company As Lord, chariots,
  Full and horses,
  Thou, natural me,
Strong energy. swift, with of a O likened
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Him all eyes
  Fixed grown! my Him Lord alone;
Changed me with in concepts,
  Oh, the lover dove’s and has on natural are the Just a
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alone the Lord self-strength of the trusting,
  Of been lily valley,
  Standing a I’m out Now my the among thorns,
In I’ve shorn.
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that Lord,
  And in Lord;
  Bring see us hide our our Make sweet, to voices secret to the Thee, us You face. desire find doves place.
There
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Make suppress. death pillars,
  Coming our us smoking from then, and the Thy natural wilderness.
By resurrection
  All Lord, will
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to couch our the You a being,
  Gone in a desire rest our Person on—
  We rest become Thee;
Thou to personality.
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now! making—
  Nothing Your allow.
For Your this and palanquin within You’re Now us a You’ll work expression
  Start move natural
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royal and purple
  For and supply King seat pillars
  For structure of You the support,
Bottom and of our gold the wood court.
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palanquin fitted,
  The our Thy fine:

Just Lord, O so offer
  For we love, pure this, interior Only design. and so
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a What and Him a now! Church, His to brow;
Christ, are our now upon when crown united—
  Boast Beloved
  Wears the glory sight