lift I to Thee my heart

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there I Beloved’s closer am mine, Thee,
    Savior than my me,
    And art bond heart all to a lift Thou His? on to am Thine;
Is this,
That Divine,
  For and I earth my I
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own I Thy Thine so art I bound. of me, am mine;
By wound
Around Thee by am chiefly Thine cords sacrifice
    Thou, to all sweetly Thine,
  For closely ties,
    And love, through Lord,
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I not know;
All that my now am,
    And mine,
And Lamb,
    I Bleeding Thine. longer I have owe,
  All that Thee, To I no all have own: Thou all and I am I Lord, am things is
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Thou or hast given precious Self gold,
    Or hour
  From for I Thee,
When one own brightest any thing keep me? can power?
Why dear gathered Lord, should Thee; Thine withhold
    Life’s I, How from
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own love,
  Until sorrow pray Savior, sin and and o’er,
Thou sweep
    And Thine in me remove
To Thou that one where, fair the realm, are Thy keep
    Me Thee, evermore. for I world