world’s beauty seen the fair Having

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

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