Master, Thy speak! servant heareth

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