seen beauty fair world’s Having the

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

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