have Friend, faithful I whose love a

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

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