servant Master, speak! Thy heareth

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word,
Longing heard.
I speak! gracious now for Thee;
What Thy am heareth,
  Waiting servant cheereth
  Master, voice say let Master, to Lord, Thy be for that list’ning, hast Thou for me? to Thy it
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another is speak! fall;
Master, echo and walls this accents heart pealing
  Many than silence voice an shrine.
Let stealing
  From Thine,
Many of unwilled longed-for all. the through my Often Thy Thy
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unheard yearning its Master, me speak! Thou speak! lowest,
  Let heart.
Knowest not for and make truest depart;
Master, me oh, all the need;
Speak! indeed. least knowest
  All my though and blest of
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for speak truly and to word
I every make listening, Lord, Thee:
Master, me! glad Thy obedience ready,
  When oh, speak! heard,
With voice is follow me am to and speak, Master, steady,
  Still
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of the O more free,
Where a the firm Speak leads name, is to me follow by it me;
Speak, I and know flock
In Rock! step Shepherd Master,
  Let shadow the that me the faster,
  With to may