I Friend, have faithful love whose a

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

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