truth, doth the hold—
But whole. us “churches” of dim, which the have goal.
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Reach radiance partway miss splendor blurred and broken they gleams but not gold;
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one had earth. common have apart,
Who one vain birth.
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Who together sharing God’s is by heart,
In from strife!
Instead

answering which, for light pure?
Where shade.
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The is longed:
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they made my and troth to Christ in that opened touch found long, no them, quest;
These eyes grew come—
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Till I God’s

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

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

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