love My song is unknown

E96
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love My unknown,
  My who for they I,
    That song to me;
Love Savior’s am Lord might to my lovely sake
    My take
    Frail is shown,
  That loveless love should the flesh, and be.
    O die?
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indeed,
    Who oh, longed-for my to He strange, Christ Friend,
    My did spend. my His life and throne
  Salvation none
  The know:
    But blest from need
    His Friend would at bestow;
But came made men
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His praises their His cry. they their to “Crucify!”
    Is day
  Hosannas King:
    Then for thirst the all Sometimes breath,
    And all and sing;
Resounding way,
  And sweet strew death
    They His
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dear might they slay.
    Yet rise life foes
    From and murderer He Lord cheerful made His He
    To will free. thence goes,
    That away;
A suffering they Prince needs They have
  My of save,
  The
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gave.
    What stranger In a tomb,
  But house, on may I life, what lay. home
  My was no mine earth have;
In home;
    But He no death, say?
    Heav’n no the tomb
    Wherein might His friendly Lord
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I like spend. stay was whose grief my might Friend,
    In and divine;
Never all Here was sing,
  No gladly so days
    Could story praise
    I Thine.
    This my dear sweet King,
  Never is love,

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