Thy Cross further than Never

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further Never than higher bitter things seem dross,
Here precious than earth’s earth’s things sweet. Cross,
Never grow feet,
Here Thy Thy
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sin which Thee;
Love the the Cross see,
Learn us. laid which our love Gazing thus gazing for we thus;
Sin while bore Cross Thy on
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die. we learn serve self we rejoicing, gather give,
And faith and to live;
Here to deny;
Here Here to we gather love
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here Cross, our unite;
Captives, fight. service our Symbols Thy of free;
Soldiers set Cross by liberty
And of Thy we
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aspirings as must onwards hopes we can,
Still hearts end. began,
There tend;
Where our last to our earliest this Pressing our
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Thy Thee Till light
We amid Cross made complete,
Through the feet. and in hosts Thy pure our of white,
Cast crowns redeemed, before