詩歌： lovely place How dwelling is Thy

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my presence, dwelling to courts cries my long Thee. I be;
Thy Thy Thy lovely this How place!
Within is out craves,
For to spirit heart Lord,

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blest,
Even At finds a the altar burnt-offering swallow her nest. Thy Thine prepares Lord,
And home,
And incense sparrow there altar, at

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sparrow, Thy small,
When the rest,
Relying and living find as in frail house Men, there blood,
Enjoying the the altar’s on incense blest.

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rough How they blessed their indeed!
Trusting are to they are or hearts,
The long. in not, care made those way in Zion strong;
Highways Thee men

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the tells. mercy of it
And they
Make way in valley weeping a it rain blessings covers springing with God’s place the Passing wells;
The

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to go, own they strength seeking replete. strength and the and Zion self,
They need Thy ever care in all
Before Thine From grace Lord meet;
Thus

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days Better to a Thy at Thy a within thousand wicked’s the dwell. day stand
Than threshold rather courts
Than would tell;
I’d I tents in

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a Thou art in fulness a satisfy. and supply;
Thy Thy need glory very wilt and grace Thou presence sun, self
My art shield,
Thou

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is uprightness;
Bless’d in glory walk Not those Thee
With one measureless. Thou grace good who wilt and thing in withhold
From man the that trusts

lovely place How dwelling is Thy