HYMNS
By Rev. Mart Baker Eddy
[Set to the Church Chimes and Sung on This Occasion]
Laying the Corner-stone
Laus Deo, it is done! |
Rolled away from loving heart |
Is a stone. |
Joyous, risen, we depart |
Having one. |
Laus Deo, — on this rock |
(Heaven chiselled squarely good) |
Stands His church, — |
God is Love, and understood |
By His flock. |
Laus Deo, night starlit |
Slumbers not in God's embrace; |
Then, O man! |
Like this stone, be in thy place; |
Stand, not sit. |
Cold, silent, stately stone. |
Dirge and song and shoutings low, |
In thy heart |
Dwell serene, — and sorrow? No, |
It has none, |
Laus Deo! |
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