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At His command fled fever, thirsty fiend, Whose parching fire dries up the wholesome blood: And madness wild, whose moon-struck eye-balls glare, With steady gaze, on vacancy: His touch, With healing virtue, from the withered limbs Drove nerveless palsy, that with fatal stroke ’Numbs every fibre, grafting death on life— Unnatural union! Scaly leprosy, At His appearance, vanished: dropsy, swol’n, Withdrew his bloated form, and each confessed A present God.
At His command fled fever, thirsty fiend, Whose parching fire dries up the wholesome blood: And madness wild, whose moon-struck eye-balls glare, With steady gaze, on vacancy: His touch, With healing virtue, from the withered limbs Drove nerveless palsy, that with fatal stroke ’Numbs every fibre, grafting death on life— Unnatural union! Scaly leprosy, At His appearance, vanished: dropsy, swol’n, Withdrew his bloated form, and each confessed A present God.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- William Bolland (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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Page 391 · printed citation: William Bolland · subject: MIRACLES
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