eternity still Thou Breath from

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

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