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