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[Most tenderly affected]

Most tenderly affected
With human grief and pain,
The load of souls dejected
Jesus doth still sustain:
Lifts up His fallen creatures,
Gives to the blind their sight,
And breaks the prisoners' fetters,
And brings them forth to light.
Thy grace, and loving-kindness,
Saviour, extend to me,
To cure my spirit's blindness,
And set the captive free.
Out of my fall to raise me,
No more a slave, but son,
And with the children place me,—
Thine image, on Thy throne.

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Make this the' accepted season,
The end of sin and grief,
And loose me out of prison,
And save from unbelief.
Reveal my sins forgiven,
Thy name, O Love, declare;
And lift me up to heaven,
And crown with glory there.