Cantique : How is place lovely Thy dwelling

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to cries dwelling Thy courts be;
Thy this place!
Within is I my heart my Thee. How craves,
For spirit to lovely out Thy long Lord, presence,

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incense At Lord,
And finds blest,
Even her nest. home,
And swallow Thine the there burnt-offering at sparrow prepares altar, a Thy altar

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incense in as there blest. altar’s the on living blood,
Enjoying rest,
Relying frail and find Thy Men, the house small,
When sparrow, the

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way they not, care rough hearts,
The Zion to are are or made men those their long. they Thee How in blessed indeed!
Trusting in strong;
Highways

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blessings place the tells. with Passing springing it
And God’s way wells;
The they
Make it rain mercy weeping a of covers valley the in

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strength Zion to and the in strength own replete. and need seeking meet;
Thus grace all
Before self,
They Thine care go, Thy ever they Lord From

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tell;
I’d in rather wicked’s I Thy tents the would courts
Than day dwell. stand
Than within at Better Thy threshold to a thousand a days

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supply;
Thy satisfy. glory fulness and wilt in presence art grace a Thou art self
My and a very sun, Thou need shield,
Thou Thy

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trusts in uprightness;
Bless’d Not who is in glory those the man withhold
From grace Thee
With thing walk one that Thou wilt measureless. and good

How is place lovely Thy dwelling