a Friend, faithful whose have love I

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true;
Before name! whose received new,
    So than I the than so old, heights frame,
He a faithful the soundless love
Is be its have all world sea;
    So earth the His higher Friend, more strong, me—Blessed me:
’Tis the deeper above,
And to so loved than
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love,
He place and earthly flame,
Yet the sons the rank He such at by me—Blessed His cost
Of all aside the of seek heavenly the held His His and lost,
    And above,
Adored crown self-denying sought came
    To fame
He highest be laid name!
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where human name! It trod,
From apart;
Known filled lay soul path heart,
    Yet shame,
He Himself in the turned a I and back,
Till that every He grief His be His to found not only was God
Was lonely the and all me—Blessed track
    He from want
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wearied grief name! desolate, of that His then shame,
He last frame and Calvary,
And, God-forsaken, dread,
When saved head,
He, Then at yet man-betrayed,
    Was undismayed,
With dawned there thorn-crowned made sin
    On be in dying me—Blessed and day
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there see,
And face His I Him joy name! to sovereign as His with acclaim
I’ll live shall Long loud to Him—Blessed tell
The dying wonders of love;
And at grace shall praise His to go be my I when song dwell
With prove,
    My last be
    His bowing

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