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[Early, my God, without delay]

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The following poem is scored for music in the source text.

Early, my God, without delay,
I haste to seek thy face,
My thirsty spirit faints away,
Without thy cheering grace;
So pilgrims on the scorching sand,
Beneath a burning sky,
Long for a cooling stream at hand,
And they must drink or die.