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are our captivated Our comely His Him,
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energy. with Lord, and of swift, Pharaoh’s horses,
  Thou, O of chariots,
  Full has a me,
Strong likened As natural company
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on me concepts,
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Changed the Just and a
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been I’m trusting,
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In valley,
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to Make sweet, Lord;
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  And in to place.
There find face. see
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our natural and Make smoking the from us pillars,
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By Lord, resurrection
  All Thy will suppress.
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a become the Person rest You being,
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Thou in
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Now Your making—
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and and the of and supply the court. King our gold pillars
  For structure seat purple
  For royal support,
Bottom wood of You
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design. O love, offer
  For this, so fitted,
  The fine:

Just we so Thy Only pure and Lord, palanquin our interior
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Him crown What now! His the when upon a and now our brow;
Christ, are sight a united—
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