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In what torn ship soever I embark,
That ship shall be my emblem of thy Ark;
What sea soever swallow me, that
Shall be to me an emblem of thy blood;

"Christ of the Andes," Christ of Everywhere,
Great lover of the hills, the open air,
And patient lover of impatient men Who blindly strive and sin and strive again, — Thou Living Word, larger than any creed,
Thou Love Divi...

Christ dying, rising, interceding, and reigning
Acts 4:24, etc
[Maker and sovereign Lord Of heav'n, and earth, and seas,
Thy providence confirms thy word,

After reading Dr Rieu’s translation of St Mark’s Gospel
Who is this that comes in splendour, coming from the blazing East
This is he we had not thought of, this is he the airy Christ
Airy, in an airy manner in an airy parkland walking,

Hope holds to Christ the mind’s own mirror out To take His lovely likeness more and more
It will not well, so she would bring about An ever brighter burnish than before And turns to wash it from her welling
And breathes the blots off all...

Hate you,
Christ,
I do not, or seek
I