unknown is love song My

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