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And now came on temptation’s demon hour To crush the Saviour! By the Holy Ghost Constrained, within a desert’s trackless wild Alone He wandered, unperceived by eyes Of mortal; there to fathom time and truth, Redemption and the vast designs of Love. ***** Thus forty days of dire temptation leagued Their might hell-born, with hunger, thirst, and pain. Meanwhile, in thankless calm the world reposed, Life went her rounds, and busy hearts maintain’d Their wonted purpose: still uprose the parent orb, And all the dewy ravishment of flowers Enkindled; day and ocean mingled smiles, And then, meek night with starr’d enchantment rose, While moonlight wander’d o’er the palmy hills Of green-hair’d Palestine: and thus unmark’d By aught portentous, save demonian wiles, His fasting period in the desert gloom Messiah braved.
And now came on temptation’s demon hour To crush the Saviour! By the Holy Ghost Constrained, within a desert’s trackless wild Alone He wandered, unperceived by eyes Of mortal; there to fathom time and truth, Redemption and the vast designs of Love. ***** Thus forty days of dire temptation leagued Their might hell-born, with hunger, thirst, and pain. Meanwhile, in thankless calm the world reposed, Life went her rounds, and busy hearts maintain’d Their wonted purpose: still uprose the parent orb, And all the dewy ravishment of flowers Enkindled; day and ocean mingled smiles, And then, meek night with starr’d enchantment rose, While moonlight wander’d o’er the palmy hills Of green-hair’d Palestine: and thus unmark’d By aught portentous, save demonian wiles, His fasting period in the desert gloom Messiah braved.
Approximate author period: c. 1831 AD · industrial
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- Robert Montgomery
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- Approximate author period: c. 1831 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 597 · printed citation: Robert Montgomery · subject: TEMPTATION
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