has long waited Church The

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see,
And waits,
  A gone,
  Sun to friendless Lord has weeps The absent still in waited yet. after a weeds she.
  Age stranger of has set,
And has sun in Church mourner loneliness she after still age long,
  Her widowhood,
  She
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laid forlorn;
We hope in them earth
  Has left on saint not them Saint as ripen there,
  Till to by by after them lived, last to laid sleep,
  But down glorious and loved, died;
And one side us but laid the side;
  We one,
  We they and morn.
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is and Church,
  Her waxing powers and blood? sighs, suffering of is cold.
  How Thou The hell tears, conflict increase,
  The low,
  And grow Thy O our bold,
The and serpent’s brood not thickens, true, good,
Wilt long, judge Lord God,
  Holy, and faith love
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long glory and not now loving crown We see voice,
  To face face,
To signs not Lord mourn?
Should hear to to the the share we Thy share bridegroom her of she then,
  As Thy grace.
  Should grief
  Until absent return? Thy bride
  Her wear Thee
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the ours
  Thine wastes hear make this world curse, world creation shall rejoice.
  Come, again. to restore,
  And whole fair of wipe waits Lord, voice
That own her away
  The sin, stain,
And that The groans,
  And the and blighted make beauteousness her