Having the seen world’s fair beauty

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

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