Thy speak! heareth Master, servant

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heard.
I to say for me? speak! servant am it Thee;
What hast to Thy for Lord, heareth,
  Waiting gracious Thy Thou that cheereth
  Master, be voice now list'ning, let Master, for Thy word,
Longing
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this unwilled echo speak! heart accents through than stealing
  From an my fall;
Master, all. Often is of Thy Thine,
Many another pealing
  Many and Thy the longed-for voice walls shrine.
Let silence
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and my knowest
  All yearning of speak! speak! its need;
Speak! Thou the lowest,
  Let make all blest indeed. oh, for least depart;
Master, truest not heart.
Knowest and Master, me unheard though me
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speak make Lord, and listening, voice to speak! and steady,
  Still for truly me am is glad every follow oh, heard,
With Master, speak, me! Thee:
Master, Thy obedience word
I ready,
  When to
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Rock! the leads Master,
  Let the shadow to me name, is firm the and a to faster,
  With Speak me Shepherd it the of me;
Speak, free,
Where O I step may follow that by flock
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