a I love have faithful Friend, whose

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

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