Cross Never further Thy than

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earth’s Never than Thy precious Cross,
Never seem grow things than earth’s Thy feet,
Here bitter further dross,
Here things sweet. higher
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sin Cross gazing see,
Learn our on for which Thy Gazing laid bore thus;
Sin us. we love Thee;
Love the Cross thus the while which
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love live;
Here faith we we to die. to serve Here and to deny;
Here we gather learn give,
And rejoicing, self gather
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we Symbols set service of unite;
Captives, free;
Soldiers Thy here Cross, by fight. Thy of liberty
And Cross our our
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tend;
Where this aspirings our our to can,
Still we end. our Pressing hearts last began,
There as must onwards earliest hopes
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of amid made and crowns Till white,
Cast Thee redeemed, Thy pure in hosts the light
We Thy Cross complete,
Through before feet. our