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As flew the fiery cross from hand to hand, / Kindling the scattered people to one flame, / Out-blazing fiercely to a sudden war; / As beacon fires flamed up from hill to hill, / Crying afar to valleys hidden wide / To tell their many dwellers of a fear / That made them one-a danger shadowing all! - / So flies to-day the torch of living fire, / From mouth to mouth, from distant ear to ear; / And all the people of all nations hear; / The printed word, the living word that tells / Of the great glory of the coming day,- / The joy that makes us one forevermore!