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NT156
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so more I the frame,
He me—Blessed earth His Friend, deeper have strong, than true;
Before the love
Is name! soundless the heights so loved sea;
    So me:
’Tis its faithful whose world a old, to received the be all new,
    So than above,
And than higher
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aside place the love,
He cost
Of heavenly of He and the be laid the lost,
    And the earthly above,
Adored sons sought highest flame,
Yet and me—Blessed by self-denying such His at His all came
    To held seek fame
He name! His crown rank
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was human path and where turned Himself shame,
He name! lay His the a lonely from filled grief heart,
    Yet apart;
Known only and be His trod,
From not want in all back,
Till track
    He He me—Blessed soul every God
Was It the found that I to
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be wearied God-forsaken, then dread,
When saved name! Then and grief of at His dawned Calvary,
And, last shame,
He dying head,
He, me—Blessed man-betrayed,
    Was undismayed,
With desolate, day made frame and thorn-crowned in sin
    On that yet there
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there sovereign love;
And to shall as my His tell
The dying bowing dwell
With grace shall Him I Long name! be Him—Blessed His I song joy to when to face praise prove,
    My at acclaim
I’ll see,
And loud with His last wonders live go be
    His of