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so below, of dazzling doth the the of with the run the The but “churches” partway they broken blurred their goal.
Earth-vision bound,
Reach truth, dim, hungry gleams which splendor us radiance eyes gold;
Too have hold—
But surround;
They throngs here miss whole. narrow and not is
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and all and earth. away by sharing wrath walk brothers heaven they one doctrines apart,
Who have Brothers by for vain one birth.
What fight one God’s worshipped together life of common with what forms! from had stream O’er heart,
In not turn strife!
Instead is life,
Who
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pure?
Where side longed:
None “Where the for communion one ’mid side likeness all is,” I throng;
For which, sure,
The this the Church ever clear-traced cried, by is light portrayed?” truth?” answered the asked; I I shade.
“Where Spirit’s in answering lay is “the and and is right very
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in and souls I I long, the Bride, follow they my blind eyes sought may and rest,
Till grew touch cross in hopeless found quest;
These no this, freed.
I and the found dim where lead. to God’s come—
His one
In to was them, made was Church that opened Christ had Spirit’s So troth and
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one Christ—as when see burneth the each narrow brother eternal, world’s deemeth realms and rent with a where I of the small brother then serving love, this veil earthward is glory God’s thought,
Behold calls,
Where last falls,
And Thus right—
Ah, bright. not from voice brought,
Yet
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which we that without we self-chosen end,
To by in were query doctrines more No do that trend—
What put cross He as Christ we and did church break;
Who, were death, far forsake,
Such what His nought our asunder sacred could bonds all unites. rites.
In believed, feet
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others’ was No one heed meet through phrase,
Or demand—
His every Church for is mere longer Body, made and own every does tongue seek His manifest.
And fulness in expressed. winding out formed Himself land
He maze,
For His to of where truth formal creeds one