faithful I have a love whose Friend,

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

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