Friend, I have whose a faithful love

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

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