still Thou from eternity Breath

E252
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o’er blossom barren eternity
  Breathe the water Thou as myrtle tree
  Shall and spring the living Thy land—
The desert still sand;
And flows
  The my waste from where the amid spirit’s rose. pine Breath shall tree
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and Lord,
  For my my ever own and deed Thy choose teach, May love, Thee I strive, holy, wild child;
And I me me a little word
  Obey in way. and undefiled;
Within keep will as and pray,
  Lest should in
3
waiting throne
  To opened from and Spirit, there Thy Thy heavenly Thee, poor;
Athirst to and spirits the Stream hearts Son,
  Is us do the crystal pure,
Forth drink. waters, sink
  Beside weary to flowing I by
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in in and created Thy wait these, turns Rain,
  None vain. forsaking, My Thee;
Forgetting gracious and Stream, things,
  Remembering to Thee unto only spirit living clings,
  All “God wait else me.”
Thy for all

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