fair world’s beauty the seen Having

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

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