Thy Jesus, with once thorns crown’d head,

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mighty glory once royal diadem crown’d brow. with Jesus, Victor’s Thy thorns,
  Is adorns
  The with now;
Heaven’s head, crown’d
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of light glorious we its manifest saints may the us Thy Thou courts depths above,
  Joy of still below,
To love,
  That know.
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with its honors all cross To earth Thy giv’n;
Though lowly in us heav’n. all be its shame,
  With name,
  God disowns Thy it grace
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pay
  The joy Who goal Price, this to be suffer also today,
  Shall Thee, Thee our reign:
Then Lord, with let it with attain.
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us cross Thee;
Our joy wealth,
  Our present shame Thy and health;
  ’Twas to glory, To and stay. is and life everlasting death

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