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In which their worship may go up to heaven, 

 And their wise lessons reach immortal souls, 

 To train them for their glorious destiny. 

 And greater honour still has God bestowed, 

 Choosing it at the Holy Feast, for type 

 Of His own Son, who laid aside His robes 

 Of glory, worn in the far heavenly home, 

 And girded with the linen towel His loins, 

 That He might be our servant, wash our feet, 

 And feed our souls with food convenient ; 

 Nay, more ! become through the last sacrifice, 

 Stripped not of costly robes, but costly life 

 Himself the living bread, that nourishes 

 Unto eternal life a dying world. 



