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So Send I You

So send I you, to labor unrewarded, To serve unpaid, unloved, unsought, unknown, To bear rebuke, to suffer scorn and scoffing, So send I you, to toil for me alone. 

2.

So send I you, to bind the bruised and broken, O'er wandering souls to work, to weep, to wake, To bear the burdens of a world aweary, So send I you, to suffer for my sake.

3.

So send I you, to loneliness and longing, With heart a'hung'ring for the loved and known, Forsaking home and kindred, friend and dear one, So send I you, to know my love alone.

4.

So send I you, to leave your life's ambition, To die to dear desire, self—will resign, To labor long, and love where men revile you, So send I you, to lose your life in mine.

5.

So send I you, to hearts made hard by hatred, To eyes, made blind, because they will not see, To spend, though it be blood, to spend and spare not, So send I you, to taste of Calvary.

As the father hath sent me, So send I you.

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