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 With spirit-hunger humbler grown,
 * The seeker lifts his saddened eyes

To Him whose everlasting throne
 * Fills all the earth and all the skies;

And from that oracle of might,
 * Healing the torment of the rod,

List to the accents of delight:
 * “The germ of action glows in God!”

The sum of all is: Seek ye first
 * The heavenly kingdom Christ restored,

Exclaiming, with supernal thirst,
 * “The glory Thine alone, O Lord!”

Then shall descend celestial rest,
 * Unknown to children of despair,

The consecration of the Blest,
 * In labor, patience, faith and prayer!

Labor, to do the best we may,
 * In patient kinship with our trust;

Faith, to illume the coming day
 * That wakes the tragic trance of dust;

Prayer, to deserve the Guiding Hand,
 * Without whose grasp our steps are vain—

Lord! to thy other Living Land
 * Link us with that electric chain!