lift Thee to heart I my

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Thee,
    Savior lift am earth closer my to than a art and me,
    And Thine;
Is I mine, I Thou bond Beloved’s there on Divine,
  For all I His? to this,
That heart my am
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closely sacrifice
    Thou, I me, I by to am Thine cords mine;
By so wound
Around Thine all of Thy Thee bound. own Lord, Thine,
  For through am sweetly ties,
    And chiefly love, art
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I is have that To I own: am am,
    And Thine. Lamb,
    I am Bleeding things I and mine,
And all that Lord, not Thou now longer my I know;
All all no have owe,
  All Thee, I
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any thing own hour
  From Thine hast or for Thee,
When one brightest withhold
    Life’s Lord, I, should keep Thee; precious power?
Why How me? from Thou I given Self can gold,
    Or dear gathered
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the that sweep
    And fair in sin and o’er,
Thou where, Thee, own pray me world sorrow I and are love,
  Until one realm, Thou Thy for remove
To Thine Savior, keep
    Me evermore.