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 God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were 
irreverent to ponder how the Son of read more 
 God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were 
irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it. 
The Pilot of the Galilean Lake.
The Pilot of the Galilean Lake.
 Near, so very near to God,
 Nearer I cannot be;
  For in the person of his Son
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 Near, so very near to God,
 Nearer I cannot be;
  For in the person of his Son
   I am as near as he.
    So dear, so very dear to God,
     More dear I cannot be;
      The love wherewith he loves the Son -
       Such is his love to me. 
 A pagan heart, a Christian soul had he.
 He followed Christ, yet for dead Pan he sighed,
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 A pagan heart, a Christian soul had he.
 He followed Christ, yet for dead Pan he sighed,
  As if Theocritus in Sicily
   Had come upon the Figure crucified,
    And lost his gods in deep, Christ-given rest. 
Every pang that rends the heart.
Every pang that rends the heart.
 In darkness there is no choice. It is light that enables us to 
see the difference between things; and read more 
 In darkness there is no choice. It is light that enables us to 
see the difference between things; and it is Christ that gives us 
light. 
 Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean;
 The world has grown gray from thy breath;
  We have drunken read more 
 Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean;
 The world has grown gray from thy breath;
  We have drunken from things Lethean,
   And fed on the fullness of death. 
 Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ 
within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.  
 Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ 
within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me. 
 Lovely was the death
 Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power,
  He on the thought-benighted read more 
 Lovely was the death
 Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power,
  He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed
   Manifest Godhead.