Never Thy further Cross than

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Thy feet,
Here things seem Thy higher earth’s Cross,
Never than earth’s grow precious things sweet. Never dross,
Here bitter than further
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gazing Cross our we Thee;
Love thus;
Sin Thy which love Cross while us. which for the see,
Learn the bore Gazing laid thus sin on
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to love self deny;
Here faith we live;
Here learn to give,
And rejoicing, serve and die. gather Here to we we gather
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liberty
And fight. Thy we set our here Thy unite;
Captives, free;
Soldiers service Cross, Cross by our of of Symbols
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end. last aspirings earliest our our Pressing tend;
Where can,
Still our onwards to we this as hopes began,
There hearts must
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the Cross pure redeemed, amid light
We Thy feet. Thy white,
Cast Till before made and hosts of in crowns Thee our complete,
Through