world’s the fair seen beauty Having

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

sight. after been shortly was its hymn written born author, her who had blind, This gained