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I In Church	A
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Thou whose birth on earth	B
Angels sang to men	C
While thy stars made mirth	B
Saviour at thy birth	B
This day born again	C
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As this night was bright	D
With thy cradle ray	E
Very light of light	D
Turn the wild world's night	D
To thy perfect day	E
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God whose feet made sweet	F
Those wild ways they trod	G
From thy fragrant feet	F
Staining field and street	F
With the blood of God	G
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God whose breast is rest	H
In the time of strife	I
In thy secret breast	H
Sheltering souls opprest	H
From the heat of life	I
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God whose eyes are skies	J
Love lit as with spheres	K
By the lights that rise	J
To thy watching eyes	J
Orbed lights of tears	L
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God whose heart hath part	H
In all grief that is	M
Was not man's the dart	H
That went through thine heart	H
And the wound not his	M
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Where the pale souls wail	N
Held in bonds of death	O
Where all spirits quail	N
Came thy Godhead pale	N
Still from human breath	O
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Pale from life and strife	I
Wan with manhood came	P
Forth of mortal life	I
Pierced as with a knife	I
Scarred as with a flame	P
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Thou the Word and Lord	H
In all time and space	Q
Heard beheld adored	H
With all ages poured	H
Forth before thy face	Q
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Lord what worth in earth	B
Drew thee down to die	H
What therein was worth	B
Lord thy death and birth	B
What beneath thy sky	H
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Light above all love	R
By thy love was lit	H
And brought down the Dove	R
Feathered from above	R
With the wings of it	H
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From the height of night	H
Was not thine the star	S
That led forth with might	H
By no worldly light	H
Wise men from afar	S
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Yet the wise men's eyes	J
Saw thee not more clear	T
Than they saw thee rise	J
Who in shepherd's guise	J
Drew as poor men near	T
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Yet thy poor endure	U
And are with us yet	H
Be thy name a sure	U
Refuge for thy poor	V
Whom men's eyes forget	H
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Thou whose ways we praised	H
Clear alike and dark	W
Keep our works and ways	X
This and all thy days	X
Safe inside thine ark	W
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Who shall keep thy sheep	Y
Lord and lose not one	Z
Who save one shall keep	Y
Lest the shepherds sleep	Y
Who beside the Son	Z
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From the grave deep wave	A2
From the sword and flame	P
Thou even thou shalt save	A2
Souls of king and slave	A2
Only by thy Name	P
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Light not born with morn	B2
Or her fires above	R
Jesus virgin born	B2
Held of men in scorn	B2
Turn their scorn to love	R
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Thou whose face gives grace	Q
As the sun's doth heat	H
Let thy sunbright face	Q
Lighten time and space	Q
Here beneath thy feet	H
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Bid our peace increase	C2
Thou that madest morn	B2
Bid oppressions cease	C2
Bid the night be peace	C2
Bid the day be born	B2
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II OUTSIDE CHURCH	A
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We whose days and ways	X
All the night makes dark	W
What day shall we praise	X
Of these weary days	X
That our life drops mark	W
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We whose mind is blind	H
Fed with hope of nought	H
Wastes of worn mankind	H
Without heart or mind	H
Without meat or thought	H
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We with strife of life	I
Worn till all life cease	C2
Want a whetted knife	I
Sharpening strife on strife	I
How should we love peace	C2
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Ye whose meat is sweet	H
And your wine cup red	H
Us beneath your feet	H
Hunger grinds as wheat	H
Grinds to make you bread	H
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Ye whose night is bright	H
With soft rest and heat	H
Clothed like day with light	H
Us the naked night	H
Slays from street to street	H
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Hath your God no rod	H
That ye tread so light	H
Man on us as God	H
God as man hath trod	H
Trod us down with might	H
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We that one by one	Z
Bleed from either's rod	H
What for us hath done	Z
Man beneath the sun	Z
What for us hath God	H
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We whose blood is food	H
Given your wealth to feed	H
From the Christless rood	H
Red with no God's blood	H
But with man's indeed	H
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How shall we that see	D2
Nightlong overhead	H
Life the flowerless tree	D2
Nailed whereon as we	D2
Were our fathers dead	H
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We whose ear can hear	E2
Not whose tongue can name	P
Famine ignorance fear	T
Bleeding tear by tear	F2
Year by year of shame	P
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Till the dry life die	H
Out of bloodless breast	H
Out of beamless eye	H
Out of mouths that cry	H
Till death feed with rest	H
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How shall we as ye	D2
Though ye bid us pray	E
Though ye call can we	D2
Hear you call or see	D2
Though ye show us day	E
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We whose name is shame	P
We whose souls walk bare	F2
Shall we call the same	P
God as ye by name	P
Teach our lips your prayer	F2
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God forgive and give	G2
For His sake who died	H
Nay for ours who live	H2
How shall we forgive	G2
Thee then on our side	H
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We whose right to light	H
Heaven's high noon denies	J
Whom the blind beams smite	H
That for you shine bright	H
And but burn our eyes	J
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With what dreams of beams	I2
Shall we build up day	H
At what sourceless streams	I2
Seek to drink in dreams	I2
Ere they pass away	H
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In what street shall meet	H
At what market place	Q
Your feet and our feet	H
With one goal to greet	H
Having run one race	Q
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What one hope shall ope	Y
For us all as one	Z
One same horoscope	Y
Where the soul sees hope	Y
That outburns the sun	Z
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At what shrine what wine	J2
At what board what bread	H
Salt as blood or brine	J2
Shall we share in sign	J2
How we poor were fed	H
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In what hour what power	K2
Shall we pray for morn	B2
If your perfect hour	K2
When all day bears flower	K2
Not for us is born	B2
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III BEYOND CHURCH	A
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Ye that weep in sleep	Y
Souls and bodies bound	H
Ye that all night keep	Y
Watch for change and weep	Y
That no change is found	H
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Ye that cry and die	H
And the world goes on	L2
Without ear or eye	H
And the days go by	H
Till all days are gone	M2
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Man shall do for you	N2
Men the sons of man	O2
What no God would do	N2
That they sought unto	N2
While the blind years ran	O2
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Brotherhood of good	H
Equal laws and rights	P2
Freedom whose sweet food	H
Feeds the multitude	H
All their days and nights	P2
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With the bread full fed	H
Of her body blest	H
And the soul's wine shed	H
From her table spread	H
Where the world is guest	H
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Mingling me and thee	D2
When like light of eyes	J
Flashed through thee and me	D2
Truth shall make us free	D2
Liberty make wise	J
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These are they whom day	H
Follows and gives light	H
Whence they see to slay	H
Night and burn away	H
All the seed of night	H
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What of thine and mine	J2
What of want and wealth	Q2
When one faith is wine	J2
For my heart and thine	J2
And one draught is health	Q2
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For no sect elect	H
Is the soul's wine poured	H
And her table decked	H
Whom should man reject	H
From man's common board	H
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Gods refuse and choose	R2
Grudge and sell and spare	F2
None shall man refuse	R2
None of all men lose	R2
None leave out of care	F2
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No man's might of sight	H
Knows that hour before	S2
No man's hand hath might	H
To put back that light	H
For one hour the more	S2
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Not though all men call	T2
Kneeling with void hands	U2
Shall they see light fall	T2
Till it come for all	T2
Tribes of men and lands	U2
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No desire brings fire	K2
Down from heaven by prayer	F2
Though man's vain desire	K2
Hang faith's wind struck lyre	V2
Out in tuneless air	F2
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One hath breath and saith	Q2
What the tune shall be	D2
Time who puts his breath	Q2
Into life and death	Q2
Into earth and sea	D2
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To and fro years flow	W2
Fill their tides and ebb	X2
As his fingers go	W2
Weaving to and fro	W2
One unfinished web	X2
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All the range of change	Y2
Hath its bounds therein	Z2
All the lives that range	Y2
All the byways strange	Y2
Named of death or sin	Z2
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Star from far to star	S
Speaks and white moons wake	A3
Watchful from afar	S
What the night's ways are	S
For the morning's sake	A3
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Many names and flames	B3
Pass and flash and fall	T2
Night begotten names	B3
And the night reclaims	B3
As she bare them all	T2
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But the sun is one	Z
And the sun's name Right	H
And when light is none	Z
Saving of the sun	Z
All men shall have light	H
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All shall see and be	D2
Parcel of the morn	B2
Ay though blind were we	D2
None shall choose but see	D2
When that day is born	B2