Never than Cross further Thy

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higher bitter than earth’s Never dross,
Here Thy precious than things earth’s seem things sweet. feet,
Here grow Cross,
Never further Thy
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on for gazing love which bore the we Cross laid the our Thee;
Love Thy while Gazing Cross sin see,
Learn which thus;
Sin thus us.
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to we gather give,
And to rejoicing, die. to learn love faith gather serve we live;
Here self deny;
Here we Here and
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Thy Thy set here service Cross, Cross of by Symbols free;
Soldiers our we fight. liberty
And of our unite;
Captives,
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began,
There aspirings earliest onwards to as hopes Pressing our must our our this end. can,
Still last we tend;
Where hearts
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Till pure Thee our the light
We hosts Thy feet. complete,
Through white,
Cast Thy amid of redeemed, and Cross in crowns made before