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A cloud lay cradled near the setting sun, A gleam of crimson tinged its braided snow, Long had I watch’d the glory moving on, O’er the still radiance of the lake below: Tranquil its spirit seem’d, and floated slow, Even in its very motion there was rest, While every breath of eve that chanced to blow, Wafted the traveller to the beauteous west. Emblem, methought, of the departed soul, To whose white robe the gleam of bliss is given, And by the breath of mercy made to roll Right onward to the golden gates of heaven, Where to the eye of faith it peaceful lies, And tells to man his glorious destinies.
A cloud lay cradled near the setting sun, A gleam of crimson tinged its braided snow, Long had I watch’d the glory moving on, O’er the still radiance of the lake below: Tranquil its spirit seem’d, and floated slow, Even in its very motion there was rest, While every breath of eve that chanced to blow, Wafted the traveller to the beauteous west. Emblem, methought, of the departed soul, To whose white robe the gleam of bliss is given, And by the breath of mercy made to roll Right onward to the golden gates of heaven, Where to the eye of faith it peaceful lies, And tells to man his glorious destinies.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- J. Wilson (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
In print by 1888: recorded in A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 130 · printed citation: J. Wilson · subject: CLOUDS
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