Cantique : dwelling lovely How is place Thy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

dwelling lovely How is place Thy