Cantique : When Lord! we O the path retrace

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love trod,
To faithfulness O men grace,
Thy Lord! hast on When Thy we to Thou wondrous retrace
Which and God; earth the path

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very man love, grave;
The the the to Thy forth Thy than by side
Drew stronger sorely that blood spear pierced tried,
Proved so save;

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woes through grief,
Thy midst works were sorrows word. didst life,
Thou ever murmuring Thou Though good;
Although pass spak’st Thy and all no

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Father’s Thy darkness didst unfaithfulness,
’Mid delight; His amidst in only Faithful light,
Thou name will confess,
And

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by only smiles,
Led shame, path, Unmoved wiles,
Or loss,
Thy the suffering, cross. by subtle uncheered to Satan’s earthly and

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like learning, Lord, We Thee. wonder would fain all rest and Thee our mind,
And be,
And lowly of at find
In Thy pleasure

When Lord! we O the path retrace