head, crown’d Thy with Jesus, once thorns

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now;
Heaven’s royal thorns,
  Is crown’d glory diadem with brow. once adorns
  The Thy head, Victor’s mighty crown’d with Jesus,
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below,
To saints above,
  Joy still glorious the know. we depths us Thy Thou light may of its manifest of love,
  That courts
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lowly heav’n. be name,
  God shame,
  With its earth cross all with in giv’n;
Though Thy grace To us disowns its all Thy it honors
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to it pay
  The with be with goal our reign:
Then today,
  Shall suffer let this Thee, Lord, attain. Who Price, Thee also joy
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stay. death cross everlasting Thee;
Our joy glory, and is wealth,
  Our shame and health;
  ’Twas to life present To Thy and us

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