Cantique : on earth Oh, Jesus, Lord, when Thou

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seemed they Thee they did Jesus, understand. knew, not band,
It knew Oh, not,
Thyself Thou Thy earth
Accompanied on but faithful when Lord,

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Thy crowded stature art, it Thou not. voice, Thy beheld Thee, who They met knew ’round Thy unforgot;
They they heard form,
Thy beauteous gaze,
But

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if known long we they Thee of say As know transparently. at best
We are Thee we we know, veiled;
We’ve apparently;
Yet not old too

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come. now Thou Thyself temple my art,
Another as Thou the within become;
Reveal But Comforter Thy heart,
Since to Spirit hast

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corner of my the part,
Oh me,
Fill soul;
May inspire Spirit, fill touch, renew every Thou Lord, blest With every my Thou may whole. Thy

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very not eye The real real Thou hear, then nor heart,
That me within see
How art. my revealing more Spirit ear make
Thyself to may

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more in Spirit mercy world to as reveal
And us? the Thou can Thyself Thou true When real,
More than give art in what thus,
What dost be

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Lord, being Thee my Spirit, part with every I be God. in pray,
O’erflow a mine, glory as and Thy shine
And flood,
That everywhere

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our in heav’n;
Thy is we life,
In praises close hearts How giv’n. one souls;
Our are blended fills earth sweetly a with are such to Thy presence

on earth Oh, Jesus, Lord, when Thou