a faithful Friend, have I love whose

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

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