Having seen world’s fair the beauty

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

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