Cantique : lovely is dwelling How Thy place

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

lovely is dwelling How Thy place