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