How I serve I shall follow Him

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I those How lead swerve,
Which I love?
Nor footsteps shall copy His follow serve?
How to me I from shall blessed I seat above? Him Him
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consecrated thorn—
Are Privations, abode,
The faithless of the life scorn,
The road? sorrows, bitter these the kiss, the of toil, crown mean
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should suff’ring lie,
Forbid Thine. should repine;
Still heed to griefs, turn Calvary,
Nor Lord, e’er my let through my path rememb’ring me it I
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the let to think night: how O homeless delight,
To to fast, every to toilsome Thou watch, leave
Untasted didst day, me grieve,
The pure faint,
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me!
Thou more grieve, To comforts love as to camest, to I Thee not to please;
And, Thyself than for these? not be,
Shall dear die earthly faint,