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Ivory Palaces



My Lord has garments so wondrous fine,
And myrrh their texture fills;
Its fragrance reached to this heart of mine
With joy my being thrills.


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Out of the ivory palaces,
Into a world of woe,
Only His great eternal love
Made my Savior go.


His life had also its sorrows sore,
For aloes had a part;
And when I think of the cross He bore,
My eyes with teardrops start.


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His garments too were in cassia dipped,
With healing in a touch;
Each time my feet in some sin have slipped,
He took me from its clutch.


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In garments glorious He will come,
To open wide the door;
And I shall enter my heav’nly home,
To dwell forevermore.


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