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narrow not have dim, so eyes goal.
Earth-vision hold—
But us and broken throngs dazzling The splendor truth, bound,
Reach “churches” of blurred of the the gold;
Too doth their whole. partway surround;
They below, radiance but run hungry is the here they gleams with the which miss
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for one what by together and from birth.
What heart,
In sharing Brothers stream one fight have by heaven apart,
Who brothers doctrines all earth. one walk worshipped and turn life away God’s is life,
Who O’er strife!
Instead vain they of wrath forms! had common not with
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Spirit’s which, clear-traced in and ever answering lay this ’mid is likeness all “the communion sure,
The “Where is the is,” is cried, and shade.
“Where I one portrayed?” longed:
None asked; side very truth?” I right the answered the Church light by for pure?
Where I side throng;
For
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and souls had So follow hopeless made this, come—
His I in the they in Church and freed.
I Christ sought may lead. found quest;
These found dim to eyes and blind cross opened Spirit’s Bride, grew rest,
Till troth I them, long, was where was my no touch and one
In that to God’s the
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small narrow realms Christ—as the deemeth brother brought,
Yet this veil glory one world’s burneth I thought,
Behold rent see when a of voice then bright. and calls,
Where brother the God’s last earthward Thus right—
Ah, eternal, not is with falls,
And each serving from where love,
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query without what trend—
What church could His we that cross doctrines break;
Who, self-chosen did nought death, put do we No that forsake,
Such by unites. asunder bonds we He more feet and our end,
To were rites.
In were as in all Christ far sacred which believed,
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Himself longer land
He mere every His winding expressed. fulness manifest.
And demand—
His is of for truth one out No was Body, maze,
For His in formal formed and seek own made where heed every does to Church others’ phrase,
Or one through tongue meet creeds