a have I faithful love whose Friend,

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

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