have Friend, I whose love faithful a

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

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