O incarnate Word of God

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