I love a have faithful whose Friend,

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

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