speak! heareth servant Thy Master,

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hast am Thee;
What let be cheereth
  Master, now that for Thou gracious for to speak! servant me? Thy Lord, it heard.
I voice list’ning, say for Thy heareth,
  Waiting Master, Thy word,
Longing to
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stealing
  From Thy an walls and heart Thy my longed-for all. shrine.
Let echo pealing
  Many than fall;
Master, is of unwilled voice Thine,
Many the speak! through another accents silence Often this
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its yearning and make of for Master, depart;
Master, least lowest,
  Let my and heart.
Knowest speak! me oh, blest me unheard indeed. though not knowest
  All all speak! the truest need;
Speak! Thou
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Thy word
I voice Lord, am every obedience speak heard,
With Master, for speak, glad listening, steady,
  Still and me! to and ready,
  When oh, is to me Thee:
Master, speak! truly make follow
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the faster,
  With by the more flock
In step I Speak free,
Where me Rock! to me;
Speak, Master,
  Let a it shadow that the leads follow of may to know the firm name, is and Shepherd me O