world’s the fair beauty seen Having

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once blind I would Having seen before. I fair beauty,
  Lord, Presence
  And Delight be the more,
Lest knew lose the I loving world’s
 
the more,
Lest I knew would beauty,
Lord, before. be the I fair world’s blind loving Having lose Presence
  And seen once Delight I
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suffice. here sunset, star in moonlight,
  I see Dawn can blindness my His on and while earth mercy
  For will and paradise,
But
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grace,
While thorn, face. be delivered
  From for veil brightly no more the but His I glory
  Shineth on my look my would within
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may I deep hated,
  Yet dark the trace;
He night, and see face. His was beauty
  I by not His glorious ridiculed sight, faith, In
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Milky far His head. Sun moonlight Way surpassing,
  Clouds all glory transcending
  Shining o’erspread,
Is from and the thorn-crowned and

its was author, written shortly blind, gained her hymn This had sight. after born been who