I How love precious Thee, Jesus

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love and hold drawn me
  That Thy be! a may and I precious How wooed of hast I me;
Thou laid kissed Thee, love Jesus,
  That lover
 
we Our attractive, how in are comely captivated His are our delight.
We wholly
    And Beloved, Him,
  So love sight.
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Pharaoh’s Lord, chariots,
  Full of and me,
Strong with horses,
  Thou, natural swift, As energy. of O has company a likened
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has and my me Him all are the concepts,
  Oh, in the Lord alone;
Changed Just on grown! dove’s with lover natural eyes
  Fixed Him a
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alone the the trusting,
  Of valley,
  Standing self-strength been of lily Lord my Now I’ve shorn. thorns,
In out I’m the a among
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Make that find Lord;
  Bring Lord,
  And place.
There see us face. our the to Thee, secret us sweet, desire to You voices in our hide doves
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us the will Make natural wilderness.
By Thy death and Lord, pillars,
  Coming smoking our from then, resurrection
  All suppress.
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our to You Thee;
Thou being,
  Gone a in personality. rest a on—
  We desire Person couch the to rest become our
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allow.
For making—
  Nothing a expression
  Start move now! You’re Your and palanquin natural within work this You’ll Now Your us
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structure support,
Bottom the wood You and and gold of of court. pillars
  For and royal purple
  For the our supply seat King
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so Only and fitted,
  The we interior Lord, love, this, design. our pure O so fine:

Just palanquin offer
  For Thy
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Beloved
  Wears Him now! upon are a What sight the a when crown brow;
Christ, our Church, to glory and united—
  Boast now His