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

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