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Lord, if I love Thee and Thou lovest me,     Why need I any more these toilsome days;     Why should I not run singing up Thy ways     Straight into heaven, to rest myself with Thee?     What need remains of death-pang yet to be,     If all my soul is quickened in Thy praise;     If all my heart loves Thee, what need the amaze,     Struggle and dimness of an agony? -     Bride whom I love, if thou too lovest Me,     Thou needs must choose My Likeness for thy dower:     So wilt thou toil in patience, and abide     Hungering and thirsting for that blessed hour     When I My Likeness shall behold in thee,     And thou therein shalt waken satisfied.

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