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The Temple
The temple shall be built, the Holy One,Such as the earth nor heavens have ever seen;
Nor shall the work by human hands be done,
But from the will of man it shall be clean;
Ages on ages shall the pile be wrought,
By Him whose will his children shall obey;
Till every son, by his own Father taught,
The chiseled stone he brought shall cast away;
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While one by one as lively stones we grow;
By every son the work is to be shared,
Built on the corner stone in Christ laid low;
That from the eternal shrine might ever rise,
A holy prayer, a living sacrifice.
Poem No. 582; late 1838–early 1839
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