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(Part II)

ST. BERNARD. (C.M.) 𝅗𝅥 = 76.

John Richardson (1816-1879).

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 purityDoth all our lusts condemn;The love that draws us nearer theeIs hot with wrath to them.
Our thoughts lie open to thy sight;And, naked to thy glance,Our secret sins are in the lightOf 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 theeInflicts 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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