the I When in natural man am

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I I natural cannot strong am.
I am. am know, I in the I When I scan
    How feel weak do man,
How not very
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the When in boasting cannot my earnest press. in life,
I world rife,
But forward sense my failure my strife,
    I have I
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within I how darkness I shallow only think dream. excel,
    And state cannot tell,
I When dwell,
My I proudly the
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see—
    My what I could come me,
I at light searching But exposed. Thee,
Thy uncovers never when last see to self I
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I ray,
And I wither away,
My in all lowly piercing dissolves ’neath lay,
    And dust strength my bow. Thy self-esteem
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How issued foolish blind my and is forth. soul fortified;
From self-satisfied,
    It dark which was heart, my the pride
With
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regret claim,
There’s lame,
There’s pray? a can that is not member deep can but There’s shame,
    How thing a not only I pride and
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me.
Thy yet Thy really poverty
    I wrath life am. saveth blood delivers me,
How filthy in from from judgment
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but fain want mercy, seek would art.
Oh, Thou I not,
I to canst have Thee Thou renew heart,
    Have pray, as e’er my faith Lord!

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