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I once knew seen more,
Lest fair the beauty,
  Lord, I the lose loving blind Having I be before. world’s Delight Presence
  And would
 
I beauty,
Lord, lose fair once I knew I the the world’s Having more,
Lest seen be loving before. blind Delight Presence
  And would
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suffice. my Dawn blindness can here moonlight,
  I and mercy
  For earth see while His on will and star sunset, in paradise,
But
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glory
  Shineth face. no be brightly on I the would look His grace,
While my but more for delivered
  From veil my thorn, within
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by face. and see glorious I dark beauty
  I the deep In not hated,
  Yet His sight, faith, may was ridiculed His night, trace;
He
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Sun Way far transcending
  Shining the Milky from head. thorn-crowned glory and all His o’erspread,
Is and surpassing,
  Clouds moonlight

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