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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.
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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
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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
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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

who its her author, shortly hymn sight. after gained been born was written This had blind,