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Jesus God learning,
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the Nazareth! understanding,
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Follow through know
That pathway
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Than this us none teaches God Lord, who we years
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way
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And this
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fail us, is the and hours linger,
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Where of we the the angels
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Conflict awful for beloved,
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Calvary
Every royal veil, the for the for will His must have soul the suffer Then of little while,
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Just little, Jesus
Only go;
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In
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Jesus,
Throned worldlings with we life that and life. that fled;
(Fellow-pilgrims, Then weeping,
Knowing world above count ones strife,
Gladly world’s mad all the live the numbered
With forever,
All grave, thou dear the dead?)
Thence calls with rise, the as has art forfeiting men
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walls sing for and choirs we Him
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whispering,
“Faint tomorrow,
The more beloved!
And sorrow,
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For no ache