JaniceB at 20:02, 30 June 2012

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	+	Unchanging God, who livest

	+	Enthroned in realms on high,
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	+	To men the power thou givest
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	+	Thy name to magnify.
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	+	We raise the bells for ringing
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	+	With ready mind and will,
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	+	And come before thee, bringing
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	+	Our hearts, our strength, our skill.
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	+	We call, from tower and steeple,
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	+	Upon the day of days,
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	+	All faithful Christian people
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	+	To worship, prayer and praise;
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	+	We ring with joyous gladness
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	+	When man and wife are blessed;
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	+	We peal in muffled sadness
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	+	For loved ones laid to rest.
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	+	By union free and willing
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	+	The work of God is done;
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	+	Our Master’s prayer fulfilling,
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	+	We would in him be one:
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	+	One, as the Church our Mother
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	+	Would have her children stand,
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	+	Befriending one another,
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	+	A strong and steadfast band.
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	+	Our lives, like bells, while changing,
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	+	An ordered course pursue;
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	+	Through joys and sorrows ranging,
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	+	May all those lives ring true.
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	+	May we, through Christ forgiven,
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	+	Our faults and failures past,
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	+	Attain our place in heaven,
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	+	Called home to rest at last.
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	+	Henry Charles Wilder, 1904