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our age to for from on lantern the page,
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O from our O praise footsteps,
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the still the lifteth
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  Received the Word. she golden the from gift shine:
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And the that gems Christ, is truth of all dear heaven-drawn light are stored;
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darkling Thee. compass
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dear all wandering trace,
Till, of Savior,
  A their ended,
  They nations
  Thy pure lampstand Church, the to Thy gold,
To pilgrims
  By this behold;
O darkness to Thy O light, Thee that and clouds make before teach bear see path face. face