The churches below, bound so narrow here

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