Cantique : The to of has God come sow Son

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man,
That God plan. life, grow
And come fulfill thus sow
Himself, Kingdom th’ The eternal Himself the of to in seed of Son has thru God’s

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He been only the Kingdom’s wheat
Whence grain reign be introduced. produced
To children whom grains of many meet,
Thru was have God’s the is

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Kingdom’s of children the many But create. to awful enemy confuse,
And among wheat,
The tares Satan, to God,
Sowed damage

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tares ’Tis this by of in work and Kingdom his,
The subtle appearance the great. grotesquely of mixing with wheat,
The is
Abnormal

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into mustard it has little as food,
But system should changed magnitude. a Kingdom herb, great “tree,”
A yet for be,
A of good The

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good of “birds” food,
A it evil where home. now being for men
And become:
’Tis place lodge a spirits make has Instead evil their of

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things,
As with leaven outward to of evil the meal. reveals.
Including mingled great world
Its us pagan, form the religion A

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of which outward the such,
It evil imbibes,
Corruption world it doth swarm. system A inwardly changed things in form;
By thus has as

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“treasure Lord in seek,
As would the doth and the and “pearl” But treasure revealed. us such pearl transform
That field”;
As something God hidden be

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and from Christ great the Kingdom’s ’Tis from to God. its transformed vast Christendom
And full reality
’Tis facade,
Yet like hidden in

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all us “tree”;
From monstrous us us “tares,”
And of “leaven” purely from may be the Lord, the from save Thee. now
That purge we the separate

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transform precious we our to house reality. as for be,
Meet Thy stones and full Thou Kingdom’s in
Thy May life build souls
That in may

The to of has God come sow Son