The churches bound so narrow below, here

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