Cantique : Thy How dwelling place lovely is

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thy How dwelling place lovely is