Cantique : the beauty Having seen fair world’s

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the I loving before. I Delight Having the beauty,
Lord, knew once I more,
Lest world’s Presence
And fair seen lose would blind be

I knew I once would before. loving Delight the world’s fair blind more,
Lest beauty,
Lord, lose Presence
And Having I seen the be

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sunset, see can His in and will earth star blindness while mercy
For suffice. moonlight,
I Dawn here on my paradise,
But and

I knew I once would before. loving Delight the world’s fair blind more,
Lest beauty,
Lord, lose Presence
And Having I seen the be

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the on delivered
From my within face. glory
Shineth no for would veil brightly His I my be grace,
While thorn, look but more

I knew I once would before. loving Delight the world’s fair blind more,
Lest beauty,
Lord, lose Presence
And Having I seen the be

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glorious His ridiculed dark not face. faith, by sight, trace;
He was deep see I the hated,
Yet night, beauty
I may In and His

I knew I once would before. loving Delight the world’s fair blind more,
Lest beauty,
Lord, lose Presence
And Having I seen the be

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His all Milky Sun from surpassing,
Clouds Way far o’erspread,
Is moonlight and and transcending
Shining head. thorn-crowned glory the

I knew I once would before. loving Delight the world’s fair blind more,
Lest beauty,
Lord, lose Presence
And Having I seen the be

the beauty Having seen fair world’s