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12 When the heavenly net is laden

With fihes many and great

(So glorious in its fulnes,

Yet o inviolate);

And perfect from unperfected,

And fall'n from thoe that tand, And the heep-flock from the goat-herd

Shall part on either hand.

And thee hall pas to torment,

And thoe hall triumph then—

The new peculiar nation,

Blet number of blet men.

Jerualem demands them;

They paid the price on earth,

And now hall reap the harvet

In blisfulnes and mirth—

The glorious holy people,

Who evermore relied

Upon their Chief and Father,

The King, the Crucified—

The acred ranomed number

Now bright with endles heen,