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Thou Who didst make and knowest whereof we are made, / Oh bear in mind our dust and nothingness, / Our wordless tearless dumbness of distress: / Bear Thou in mind the burden Thou hast laid / Upon us, and our feebleness unstayed / Except Thou stay us: for the long long race / Which stretches far and far before our face / Thou knowest, -- remember Thou whereof we are made. / If making makes us Thine, then Thine we are; / And if redemption, we are twice Thine own: / If once Thou didst come down from heaven afar / To seek us and to find us, how not save? / Comfort us, save us, leave us not alone, / Thou Who didst die our death and fill our grave.