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VI. DOMINICA PENTECOSTES.
The Form decreed of tree and flower
The Shape susceptible of life
Without the infused, vivific Power
Were but a slumber or a strife.
The Shape susceptible of life
Without the infused, vivific Power
Were but a slumber or a strife.
He whom the plastic Hand of God
Himself created out of earth
Remained a statue and a clod
Till Spirit infused to life gave birth.
Himself created out of earth
Remained a statue and a clod
Till Spirit infused to life gave birth.
So till that hour the Church. In Christ
Her awful structure, nerve and bone,
Though founded, shaped, and organized
Existed but in skeleton
Her awful structure, nerve and bone,
Though founded, shaped, and organized
Existed but in skeleton
Till down on that predestined frame,
Complete through all its sacred mould
That Pentecostal Spirit came,
The self-same Spirit Who of old
Complete through all its sacred mould
That Pentecostal Spirit came,
The self-same Spirit Who of old
Creative o'er the waters moved:
Thenceforth the Church, made One and Whole,
Arose in Him, and lived, and loved;
His Temple she, and He her Soul.
Thenceforth the Church, made One and Whole,
Arose in Him, and lived, and loved;
His Temple she, and He her Soul.
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