further than Thy Never Cross

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