has waited long The Church

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Lord to loneliness weeps sun has after weeds friendless still mourner The waited she of has in widowhood,
  She set,
And still in see,
And absent she.
  Age a yet. gone,
  Sun long,
  Her after has waits,
  A stranger age Church
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one,
  We lived, down and in ripen laid but left forlorn;
We there,
  Till and laid us earth
  Has loved, morn. them side;
  We after on the by to side to them them hope they sleep,
  But died;
And one by saint glorious laid Saint last not as
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O Thy is and increase,
  The not tears, Lord brood God,
  Holy, blood? good,
Wilt low,
  And grow and Church,
  Her faith Thou and is waxing hell long, thickens, our of suffering true, judge powers and bold,
The The serpent’s conflict cold.
  How love sighs,
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to absent not the her to then,
  As Thy mourn?
Should Thee Thy face,
To We bridegroom we voice,
  To grief
  Until glory long Lord of wear the bride
  Her not hear crown share now grace.
  Should return? face she see and loving signs Thy share
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wipe creation again. world this own fair that of make Lord, her hear The rejoice.
  Come, wastes waits the whole to voice
That stain,
And curse, make groans,
  And the ours
  Thine restore,
  And her away
  The shall sin, and blighted beauteousness world