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I: To those who know the Lord I speak, / Is my Beloved near?
The Bridegroom of my soul I seek, / Oh! when will he appear?
II: Though once a man of grief and shame, / Yet now he fills a throne, / And bears the greatest, sweetest name, / That earth or heaven have known.
III: Grace flies before, and love attends / His steps where'er he goes; / Though none can see him but his friends, / And they were once his foes.
IV: He speaks -- obedient to his call / Our warm affections move; / Did he but shine alike on all, / Then all alike would love.
V: Then love in every heart would reign, / And war would cease to roar; / And cruel and blood-thirsty men / Would thirst for blood no more.
VI: Such Jesus is, and such his grace, / Oh may it shine on you!
And tell him, when you see his face, / I long to see him too.