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He cometh not a king to reign; The world’s long hope is dim; The weary centuries watch in vain The clouds of heaven for Him. And not for sign in heaven above Or earth below they look, Who know with John His smile of love, With Peter His rebuke. In joy of inward peace, or sense Of sorrow over sin, He is His own best evidence His witness is within. The healing of His seamless dress, Is by our beds of pain; We touch Him in life’s throng and press, And we are whole again. 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.... Our Friend, our Brother, and our Lord, What may Thy service be?— Nor name, nor form, nor ritual word, But simply following Thee. We faintly hear, we dimly see, In differing phrase we pray; But, dim or clear, we own in Thee, The Light, the Truth, the Way!
He cometh not a king to reign; The world’s long hope is dim; The weary centuries watch in vain The clouds of heaven for Him. And not for sign in heaven above Or earth below they look, Who know with John His smile of love, With Peter His rebuke. In joy of inward peace, or sense Of sorrow over sin, He is His own best evidence His witness is within. The healing of His seamless dress, Is by our beds of pain; We touch Him in life’s throng and press, And we are whole again. 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.... Our Friend, our Brother, and our Lord, What may Thy service be?— Nor name, nor form, nor ritual word, But simply following Thee. We faintly hear, we dimly see, In differing phrase we pray; But, dim or clear, we own in Thee, The Light, the Truth, the Way!
Approximate author period: c. 1807 AD · industrial
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- John G. Whittier
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- Approximate author period: c. 1807 AD · industrial
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 142 · printed citation: John Greenleaf Whittier (Our Master). · compiler notes excluded
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