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Shew Us The Father

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"Shew us the Father." Chiming stars of space,         And lives that fit the worlds, and means and powers,         A Thought that holds them up reveal to ours--     A Wisdom we have been made wise to trace.     And, looking out from sweetest Nature's face,         From sunsets, moonlights, rivers, hills, and flowers,         Infinite love and beauty, all the hours,     Woo men that love them with divinest grace;     And to the depths of all the answering soul         High Justice speaks, and calls the world her own;         And yet we long, and yet we have not known     The very Father's face who means the whole!         Shew us the Father! Nature, conscience, love         Revealed in beauty, is there One above?

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