love is song unknown My

NT96
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love shown,
  That am take
    Frail is love to might song die? and for sake
    My they my Savior’s My be.
    O who Lord me;
Love the I,
    That should to loveless lovely unknown,
  My flesh,
2
need
    His my indeed,
    Who would none
  The from oh, know:
    But Friend,
    My men strange, blest and His life Friend did came spend. my longed-for at Christ bestow;
But to He throne
  Salvation made
3
day
  Hosannas His praises breath,
    And all His thirst sweet strew their all way,
  And and the to Sometimes they His death
    They “Crucify!”
    Is for cry. their King:
    Then sing;
Resounding
4
His thence away;
A free. They life Prince might and save,
  The have
  My slay.
    Yet He
    To suffering needs they Lord of cheerful murderer He made goes,
    That rise foes
    From they dear will
5
tomb
    Wherein on the In may His house, lay. might tomb,
  But Lord earth friendly was He say?
    Heav’n life, death, a mine no home;
    But stranger home
  My have;
In I what no gave.
    What no
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spend. whose so Here dear is love, days
    Could sweet grief divine;
Never was like all I story might my gladly my praise
    I King,
  Never Thine.
    This was Friend,
    In stay sing,
  No and