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| LO! as the potter mouldeth plastic clay | |
| To forms his varying fancy doth display; | |
| So in Thy hand, O God of love, are we: | |
| Thy bond regard, let sin be veil’d from Thee. | |
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| Lo! as the mason’s hand the block doth hew | 5 |
| To shapes sublime, or into fragments strew; | |
| So in Thy hand, O God of life, are we: | |
| Thy bond regard, let sin be veil’d from Thee. | |
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| Lo! as the smith the rigid steel hath bent, | |
| Soften’d with fire and wrought with strength unspent; | 10 |
| So in Thy hand, O God of might, are we: | |
| Thy bond regard, let sin be veil’d from Thee. | |
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| Lo! as the seaman’s hand doth cast or weigh | |
| The pond’rous anchor in the foaming spray; | |
| So in Thy hand, O God of pardon, we: | 15 |
| Thy bond regard, let sin be veil’d from Thee. | |
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| Lo! as the worker melteth vitreous flow, | |
| And shapeth vessels from the crystal blow; | |
| So in Thy hand, O God of grace, are we: | |
| Thy bond regard, let sin be veil’d from Thee. | 20 |
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| Lo! as th’ embroid’rer’s hand the robe hath made, | |
| At will in lines of beauty, light and shade; | |
| So in Thy hand, O God of fear, are we: | |
| Thy bond regard, let sin be veil’d from Thee. | |
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| Lo! as the smelter fuseth silv’ry vein, | 25 |
| Removing dross, that naught impure remain; | |
| So in Thy hand, O God of healing, we: | |
| Thy bond regard, let sin be veil’d from Thee. | |
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| Lo! as the potter mouldeth plastic clay | |
| To forms his varying fancy doth display; | 30 |
| So in Thy hand, O God of love, are we: | |
| Thy bond regard, let sin be veil’d from Thee. | |
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