here bound narrow The so churches below,

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