still from Thou eternity Breath

E252
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amid still water the the eternity
  Breathe desert where spring Thou barren the myrtle tree
  Shall living tree flows
  The rose. land—
The my and shall o’er from blossom pine sand;
And spirit’s as Thy waste Breath
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Lord,
  For teach, as May and in my way. deed me love, I Thee ever will and child;
And should holy, a wild me my undefiled;
Within keep word
  Obey Thy strive, pray,
  Lest little and own choose in I and
3
drink. flowing throne
  To Thy Thee, by heavenly spirits Son,
  Is sink
  Beside pure,
Forth Spirit, Stream the hearts do crystal from to waiting Thy poor;
Athirst waters, and there the weary and opened to I us
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Thee;
Forgetting “God forsaking, spirit created to Thee gracious these, me.”
Thy My for and Stream, living vain. and unto wait all Rain,
  None in in else wait clings,
  All Thy turns things,
  Remembering only

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