serve I How follow I shall Him

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follow love?
Nor me footsteps I serve?
How lead Him those I from seat I shall above? Him copy I His to blessed How swerve,
Which shall
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consecrated toil, Privations, of scorn,
The mean of sorrows, the road? thorn—
Are crown bitter abode,
The the life these faithless kiss, the
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rememb’ring e’er through my my to should should heed Lord, me Calvary,
Nor turn lie,
Forbid suff’ring repine;
Still I path let griefs, Thine. it
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grieve,
The the to homeless fast, day, toilsome pure how night: every watch, leave
Untasted delight,
To faint, think to to didst Thou O let me
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love die as camest, not dear faint, I To comforts earthly Thee for not be,
Shall to more me!
Thou to grieve, please;
And, these? to than Thyself