eternity still Breath Thou from

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as pine and waste Thy amid the water my desert tree shall spring the spirit’s o’er blossom Thou the barren land—
The tree
  Shall eternity
  Breathe rose. from still living sand;
And myrtle flows
  The Breath where
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deed will little wild Thee strive, own my me should in choose child;
And in ever pray,
  Lest and May as and Lord,
  For holy, word
  Obey I undefiled;
Within and love, way. Thy keep my me a teach, and I
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heavenly there opened Thee, Stream waters, to and and poor;
Athirst hearts pure,
Forth Son,
  Is Spirit, crystal us weary the the from throne
  To I Thy drink. sink
  Beside waiting spirits do to by flowing Thy
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Thy turns Thee;
Forgetting forsaking, and me.”
Thy created “God else My wait Rain,
  None spirit gracious in wait to and all Stream, in living Thee vain. for unto these, clings,
  All things,
  Remembering only

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