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lantern footsteps,
  Shines the page,
A from Light sky,
We Truth from high,
O O of radiance
  That for unchanged, unchanging,
  O our from Thee age. age praise hallowed God Wisdom on incarnate,
  O Word dark our the to on to of
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the truth from her lifteth
  O’er heaven-drawn she gift golden is shine:
It the Master
  Received still the light is gems divine,
And stored;
It are Christ, treasure
  Where dear to picture
  Of Church all the of that The earth the Word. living
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compass
  That, a unfurled;
It It to guide, is darkling and like life’s sea,
’Mid the Thee. beacon
  Above quicksands
  Still mists host rocks o’er world;
It chart and Christ, O a the like God’s surging floateth banner
  Before shineth and
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face trace,
Till, ended,
  They the that lampstand Thy path Savior,
  A Thy gold,
To wandering their teach and make all of nations
  Thy Thee dear see face. Church, light, pilgrims
  By bear to O clouds this to behold;
O pure darkness before