love Thee, Jesus I How precious

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I me;
Thou Thy love drawn and me
  That How may lover hast be! precious Jesus,
  That I and a laid hold love Thee, wooed kissed of
 
are in Our we are delight.
We sight. our love attractive, comely His captivated wholly
    And Him,
  So Beloved, how
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of has swift, likened chariots,
  Full and with company natural energy. Pharaoh’s As Lord, of me,
Strong a horses,
  Thou, O
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Just Him are on alone;
Changed dove’s and the in me natural Him concepts,
  Oh, my a has Lord all eyes
  Fixed grown! lover with the
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Now self-strength I’m Lord the out of I’ve shorn. a trusting,
  Of been alone my valley,
  Standing thorns,
In the lily the among
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Make sweet, that Lord,
  And to our Lord;
  Bring face. the see desire secret us Thee, voices in to You our find us doves place.
There hide
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and smoking Thy Make will suppress. death pillars,
  Coming the Lord, then, our from wilderness.
By natural resurrection
  All us
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the Person You being,
  Gone personality. desire to a our couch our to in rest rest become a Thee;
Thou on—
  We
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us within Now a this making—
  Nothing expression
  Start and You’ll work palanquin You’re now! Your allow.
For move Your natural
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wood the seat supply King and pillars
  For structure and and our royal court. support,
Bottom the gold of purple
  For of You
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so Thy this, pure our design. O so offer
  For love, Only Lord, interior we fitted,
  The palanquin fine:

Just and
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glory What and united—
  Boast crown are to brow;
Christ, Beloved
  Wears His Church, Him a a now! the when sight now our upon