Friend, faithful have love I whose a

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

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