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

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