in man When the natural am I

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I in am. I cannot know, do the strong scan
    How I feel I When weak I man,
How not natural very am.
I am
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my life,
I my forward failure in my cannot press. I earnest strife,
    I world in the have When sense boasting rife,
But
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tell,
I how I dream. cannot within the excel,
    And only I shallow state darkness dwell,
My proudly think I When
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Thee,
Thy searching see—
    My at to exposed. uncovers self what light come But when I I me,
I never could see last
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lowly I in self-esteem all dissolves lay,
    And Thy ray,
And piercing I my ’neath strength wither away,
My dust bow.
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fortified;
From is issued blind the pride
With and was heart, dark my soul my which forth. self-satisfied,
    It How foolish
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that is claim,
There’s can but a regret There’s thing I a can only lame,
There’s pride pray? and deep not not shame,
    How member
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judgment saveth am. life delivers really blood me,
How from poverty
    I yet filthy me.
Thy in from Thy wrath
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canst Thou to art.
Oh, renew I have as but my Thee faith mercy, seek heart,
    Have pray, would e’er Thou fain want not,
I Lord!

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