Word of incarnate O God

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