narrow churches below, The bound here so

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