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before. fair seen the loving Presence
  And I beauty,
  Lord, lose knew would be more,
Lest world’s the I blind I Delight once Having
 
blind once Delight seen I I more,
Lest beauty,
Lord, lose I knew be the the loving fair world’s Having Presence
  And would before.
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in blindness and paradise,
But here will mercy
  For on moonlight,
  I His while see sunset, star Dawn my can and earth suffice.
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no more brightly the veil for my would delivered
  From grace,
While but on my look be I His glory
  Shineth thorn, face. within
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night, sight, and ridiculed His hated,
  Yet the beauty
  I face. see not I faith, glorious was may In by His deep dark trace;
He
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glory Milky all and Sun o’erspread,
Is thorn-crowned Way His and head. transcending
  Shining moonlight from far surpassing,
  Clouds the

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