Having fair world’s the beauty seen

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

was gained shortly born sight. who This her hymn written blind, had after been its author,