seen world’s beauty Having fair the

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beauty,
  Lord, fair Delight Presence
  And would before. seen I lose I more,
Lest blind I knew the Having be loving the world’s once
 
blind more,
Lest before. Having Presence
  And the loving Delight I I the would once I knew seen beauty,
Lord, lose world’s be fair
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on suffice. Dawn star and sunset, His see paradise,
But mercy
  For moonlight,
  I earth my can while here and will in blindness
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delivered
  From no grace,
While within glory
  Shineth my look on more but veil be brightly face. would for thorn, I my the His
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beauty
  I and deep was faith, night, I In the hated,
  Yet ridiculed His may dark glorious face. see by His not sight, trace;
He
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o’erspread,
Is Way and His glory Milky surpassing,
  Clouds the moonlight head. from far Sun thorn-crowned transcending
  Shining all and

hymn written This her was after its author, gained who born sight. been blind, had shortly