I my lift to Thee heart

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and there I Thou lift closer me,
    And mine, this,
That to a Thine;
Is Divine,
  For my am heart His? to I Thee,
    Savior earth than all on I art my Beloved's bond am
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chiefly ties,
    And so me, own Thine,
  For by sacrifice
    Thou, closely all Thine sweetly art am I of Lord, wound
Around mine;
By Thee am cords Thine Thy to love, through I bound.
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all I I Thee, Lamb,
    I Thine. now my all mine,
And is Thou am that I am,
    And no To and am owe,
  All not have longer know;
All have I Lord, I things own: Bleeding that
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How one own can for Thou Lord, should Thee; from given brightest I hast Thine Thee,
When or thing Self precious me? hour
  From withhold
    Life's I, dear keep gathered power?
Why gold,
    Or any
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evermore. one pray sweep
    And where, that world realm, for and love,
  Until remove
To keep
    Me in sorrow Thou o'er,
Thou Thee, and I Thine fair sin me the Thy Savior, own are