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

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

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

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

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

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

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