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A Saint! Oh, would that I could claim The privileged, the honour’d name, And confidently take my stand, Though lowest in the saintly band. Would, though it were in scorn applied That term the test of truth could bide! Like kingly salutation given, In mockery to the king of Heaven. A saint? and what imports the name Thus banded in derision’s game? “Holy and separate from sin; To good, nay even to God akin.” How shall the name of saint be prized, Though now neglected and despised, And sinners to their doom be hurled, When scorned saints shall “judge the world.”
A Saint! Oh, would that I could claim The privileged, the honour’d name, And confidently take my stand, Though lowest in the saintly band. Would, though it were in scorn applied That term the test of truth could bide! Like kingly salutation given, In mockery to the king of Heaven. A saint? and what imports the name Thus banded in derision’s game? “Holy and separate from sin; To good, nay even to God akin.” How shall the name of saint be prized, Though now neglected and despised, And sinners to their doom be hurled, When scorned saints shall “judge the world.”
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Marriot (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 517 · printed citation: Marriot · subject: SAINT
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