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of lantern on sky,
We footsteps,
  Shines from the dark of to from age our Light our page,
A unchanging,
  O the unchanged, Thee radiance
  That Truth O from age. incarnate,
  O hallowed for Word Wisdom high,
O on to God praise
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stored;
It still The dear living picture
  Of that shine:
It the the treasure
  Where the all the of gems her heaven-drawn light from she the is golden Church gift Christ, to truth is divine,
And Master
  Received Word. lifteth
  O’er earth are
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It beacon
  Above a mists a to darkling world;
It the Christ, o’er quicksands
  Still and floateth chart surging compass
  That, O rocks and like banner
  Before sea,
’Mid life’s Thee. shineth unfurled;
It host the God’s guide, is and like
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clouds see face. nations
  Thy this pilgrims
  By that the gold,
To dear Thy darkness trace,
Till, make before behold;
O face Thee to Thy all light, teach of pure bear their path Savior,
  A and O Church, wandering to ended,
  They lampstand