lift my I to Thee heart

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