[Verse 1]
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Here in this place new light is streaming, now is the darkness vanished away
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See in this space our fears and our dreamings, brought here to you in the light of this day
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Gather us in, the lost and forsaken, gather us in, the blind and the lame,
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Call to us now and we shall awaken, we shall arise at the sound of our name
[Verse 2]
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We are the young, our lives are a myst'ry; we are the old, who yearn for Your face
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We have been sung throughout all of hist'ry, called to be light to the whole human race
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Gather us in, the rich and the haughty, gather us in, the proud and the strong,
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Give us a heart, so meek and so lowly, give us the courage to enter the song
[Verse 3]
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Here we will take the wine and the water, here we will take the bread of new birth
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Here You shall call Your sons and Your daughters, call us anew to be salt for the earth
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Give us to drink the wine of compassion, give us to eat the bread that is You
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Nourish us well and teach us to fashion lives that are holy and hearts that are true
[Verse 4]
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Not in the dark of buildings confining, not in some heaven light years away,
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Here in this place the new light is shining, now is the Kingdom, now is the day
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Gather us in and hold us forever, gather us in and make us Your own
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Gather us in all peoples together, fire of His love in our flesh and our bone