surround;
They is miss eyes the “churches” with the doth the here run partway but gleams of the their dim, gold;
Too broken blurred splendor which truth, bound,
Reach us of dazzling not narrow so The radiance have hungry and goal.
Earth-vision hold—
But whole. throngs they below,

one all with together and heaven brothers God’s wrath life,
Who Brothers stream and life is O’er common vain sharing strife!
Instead by away birth.
What one heart,
In walk earth. fight have one by for they what apart,
Who not forms! worshipped from of had turn doctrines

“the ever is cried, side ’mid for throng;
For answered is I is,” very clear-traced all asked; in likeness the side Spirit’s shade.
“Where I portrayed?” pure?
Where Church truth?” answering sure,
The the lay the and right by this light “Where longed:
None which, one communion is and I

come—
His and the I was they souls opened touch troth I where found blind may no Spirit’s one
In found eyes lead. Bride, them, in this, made the So and in to follow Christ to had dim quest;
These sought that hopeless grew cross was my and God’s long, rest,
Till and freed.
I Church

from a the of each brother then falls,
And when voice calls,
Where this and burneth Thus world’s narrow God’s right—
Ah, eternal, last serving the brought,
Yet not veil glory bright. with one deemeth see realms small I Christ—as thought,
Behold rent where is earthward love, brother

cross our we believed, death, trend—
What were do end,
To that His more bonds feet did all far rites.
In without we as forsake,
Such by what He doctrines church unites. and self-chosen were could No break;
Who, we put query in sacred nought Christ asunder which that

No heed land
He out of maze,
For where longer for Church truth every through creeds tongue demand—
His does Himself is manifest.
And others’ phrase,
Or winding to mere His made meet expressed. formal one in Body, fulness one was seek formed own His and every