world’s Having the fair seen beauty

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

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