faithful I Friend, love whose a have

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

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