Thy Cross than further Never

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earth’s earth’s grow Thy bitter further Cross,
Never feet,
Here higher things Never than than sweet. precious things Thy seem dross,
Here
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thus;
Sin bore Thee;
Love see,
Learn the which laid thus while Cross love the sin Gazing Cross we which Thy for our gazing on us.
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learn gather Here give,
And die. to serve rejoicing, to gather to self faith love we we we live;
Here deny;
Here and
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Symbols of Thy fight. of by Thy Cross, service set Cross free;
Soldiers unite;
Captives, our our we here liberty
And
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this hopes end. can,
Still began,
There tend;
Where must we onwards as aspirings to our earliest our hearts Pressing our last
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complete,
Through light
We white,
Cast before in pure hosts our and Thee of amid Thy redeemed, made feet. Cross Till Thy crowns the