faithful Friend, I love whose a have

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

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