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ST. BERNARD. (C.M.) 𝅗𝅥 = 76.
John Richardson (1816-1879).
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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892).
(Selected from Our Master.)
Part II.
O LORD and Master of us all! Whate'er our name or sign,We own thy sway, we hear thy call, We test our lives by thine.
Thou judgest us; thy purity Doth all our lusts condemn;The love that draws us nearer thee Is hot with wrath to them.
Our thoughts lie open to thy sight; And, naked to thy glance,Our secret sins are in the light Of thy pure countenance.
Yet, weak and blinded though we be, Thou dost our service own;We bring our varying gifts to thee, And thou rejectest none.
To thee our full humanity, Its joys and pains, belong;The wrong of man to man on thee Inflicts a deeper wrong.
Deep strike thy roots, heavenly Vine, Within our earthly sod,Most human and yet most divine, The flower of man and God.
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