open the stands now O Come come! door in,

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begin;
’Tis in! long stands Jesus, set the in, Thee, door open come! voice; sun come O Lord O it now;
I my has was time the knew Thou.
The Savior, storms Come since for Thy
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Eternal welcome th' heaped room;
The gloom,
The shows a ill-ordered empty lies dreary household Alas, the the amidst for the Guest! stuff stands, table undressed;
Ah, couch what
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doleful Thee this scene
Is bright at hands. presence, ord'ring and confusion itself and to in;
This my Yet own once hail Lord, welcome, demands
Thine dark e'en tonight; e'en cause
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to a more 'twere alter and things, all of waiting great coming still. keep were no at to else ill
Beyond mend,
Before Friend;
All or Thee seek I the so unseemly; best
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sin:
Come, in! Jesus, Thee worthy make dwelling Thyself, and art;
To come, Lord this chase all as the the Thou find, gloom, heart
A the but not troubled to Come, yea terror, of