Cantique : place is Thy lovely dwelling How

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

place is Thy lovely dwelling How