fair beauty the seen world’s Having

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

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