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    On a hill  far  a-way stood an old rugged cross the emblem of suffering and shame.


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   And I love that old cross where the dearest and best for a world of lost sinners was slain.


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     So I'll cherish the old rugged cross,     till my trophies at last I lay down.               I will


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   cling to the old rugged cross,      and exchange it someday for a crown.