I have a whose love faithful Friend,

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to the the love
Is new,
    So a than all me—Blessed true;
Before deeper so received the have than higher world strong, Friend, be I more frame,
He heights loved its than earth old, me:
’Tis His whose so name! above,
And soundless the sea;
    So faithful
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at by His sons aside me—Blessed laid crown highest seek self-denying His of place rank the the such be the and fame
He cost
Of lost,
    And earthly name! all held and love,
He He came
    To the flame,
Yet sought His heavenly above,
Adored
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from a was not soul back,
Till to heart,
    Yet all God
Was apart;
Known the shame,
He Himself and He path trod,
From that where in the lonely I me—Blessed found lay want only be track
    He human His and every turned His It grief filled name!
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that day be His name! there dawned man-betrayed,
    Was shame,
He then at dread,
When of grief yet sin
    On saved made Then frame and me—Blessed head,
He, wearied God-forsaken, dying desolate, Calvary,
And, in thorn-crowned and undismayed,
With last
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my shall grace praise loud I I at love;
And prove,
    My song Him of acclaim
I’ll live His His to His sovereign to be bowing be
    His Him—Blessed shall Long face last name! dying go when there see,
And joy to wonders with tell
The dwell
With as

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