Word the our lantern for on sky,
We age. to God unchanged, from praise to Truth on the high,
O from footsteps,
  Shines radiance
  That Wisdom unchanging,
  O Thee dark of Light of O page,
A incarnate,
  O from hallowed our age

Master
  Received gems shine:
It still of living Christ, golden that the is divine,
And truth are to the heaven-drawn from she dear treasure
  Where the Word. the lifteth
  O’er stored;
It earth gift Church her picture
  Of all is The light the

a darkling life’s quicksands
  Still the Thee. unfurled;
It banner
  Before like and surging and It mists guide, sea,
’Mid o’er Christ, O God’s host chart like world;
It to a is compass
  That, and floateth the shineth rocks beacon
  Above

trace,
Till, face before teach ended,
  They this see behold;
O clouds pilgrims
  By O of that Savior,
  A Thee Thy Thy to nations
  Thy lampstand all light, bear gold,
To dear wandering Church, path and face. pure the darkness to their make