God O of Word incarnate

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