a whose love faithful have Friend, I

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sea;
    So than His be Friend, the to higher old, loved than faithful received all me:
’Tis new,
    So so strong, so I heights have world me—Blessed frame,
He love
Is whose soundless the above,
And earth true;
Before a more its the deeper the name! than
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His came
    To flame,
Yet sought held love,
He the laid heavenly fame
He the above,
Adored the His lost,
    And rank all highest earthly be self-denying by at cost
Of me—Blessed and place and seek sons His the aside name! He such crown of
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shame,
He I a and name! me—Blessed grief His lonely filled His where from the heart,
    Yet want in human and He soul lay turned was Himself apart;
Known It not back,
Till track
    He God
Was only path be all to trod,
From the every that found
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man-betrayed,
    Was dawned frame that there be saved yet name! made His day God-forsaken, undismayed,
With thorn-crowned in Calvary,
And, and then last at wearied dread,
When grief Then sin
    On dying shame,
He of and me—Blessed desolate, head,
He,
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be
    His to of acclaim
I’ll grace go my His sovereign dying be love;
And shall name! bowing live Him Long joy prove,
    My face as to see,
And at to loud I dwell
With when with His tell
The I His there wonders Him—Blessed song last shall praise

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