Cantique : beauty fair seen Having the world’s

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fair Delight lose would the loving beauty,
Lord, I Having I before. world’s the be blind Presence
And seen more,
Lest knew once I

blind more,
Lest I beauty,
Lord, Delight would Having I world’s fair be loving Presence
And seen before. knew I lose the once the

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moonlight,
I blindness will sunset, here star paradise,
But on mercy
For in can my Dawn and while see and His earth suffice.

blind more,
Lest I beauty,
Lord, Delight would Having I world’s fair be loving Presence
And seen before. knew I lose the once the

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be I would veil for but delivered
From His glory
Shineth look the no grace,
While face. brightly my within my more thorn, on

blind more,
Lest I beauty,
Lord, Delight would Having I world’s fair be loving Presence
And seen before. knew I lose the once the

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I face. not His trace;
He ridiculed dark glorious In faith, may sight, hated,
Yet the see and beauty
I night, His by deep was

blind more,
Lest I beauty,
Lord, Delight would Having I world’s fair be loving Presence
And seen before. knew I lose the once the

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far o’erspread,
Is surpassing,
Clouds glory His Way from head. the Milky all moonlight and transcending
Shining Sun and thorn-crowned

blind more,
Lest I beauty,
Lord, Delight would Having I world’s fair be loving Presence
And seen before. knew I lose the once the

beauty fair seen Having the world’s