O me mighty God, Thy constraineth love,

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constraineth sweep to strong on me,
As in mighty O channel some it self-bound away. way,
Seeking tide barriers presseth all a soul,
Yearning my its Thy God, love,
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as hath Thy yield that flow constraining gentleness power?
Shall tide I Shall not I O hath conquered cannot it of to been. love, me,
Life say, in?
My hither not be God,
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brain,
Flood avenue of heavenly affections, but through thought pure nature, own every Break mighty, Thine my nothing life my will,
Let and love,
Clear remain. my purify
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God,
Forth and stream a tenderness and God because free,
Shall flow eternally. life, Thus by from possessed my spontaneous grace,
Loving, and of wholly loved, mastered