Cantique : Lord, the Dear Thou Life of Tree art

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Dear life life fruits, of very hunger supply;
Thy Life,
The divine,
Our with satisfy. replete Tree art Lord, the Thou

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we and the in source heav’nly Thou Vine,
Our of live, from all true life;
By art Thee our very Thee rest abide,
And strife.

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are enjoy;
Thy sweet all to we our Tree,
Thyself taste,
Thy joy. Thou the us brings Apple Lord, fruits all art Dear shadow

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healing Thou cure. endure;
Thou to the slain,
That didst us for Tree;
Our may Thou death art we a tree on have us wast Thy

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God,
His we of of Thee take Thou reality. the Branch as art in Him the Thee;
In grace
And fulness dwells very

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David’s comprehend
The see Thee true to also Lord, be;
In art here Thou humanity. Branch
Incarnate we and

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life;
Before Thy Thou endless with is God,
In can art rife. resurrection Thee be never pow’r
Death sprouting Rod the

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Thine uplifting free. death of swimming also the Stick,
The fallen pow’r life,
From lifted art Thou we;
By we’re “ax” are

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remembering we richly declare! Thee,
Thyself we such are we Lord, share;
As of “Plant thus art Fame,
Of here Thou a Thee

Lord, the Dear Thou Life of Tree art