Word of incarnate O God

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