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At length life’s stormy voyage well nigh done, These waves shall toss my fragile bark no more, But ah! there waits the judge, the unerring one, Who shall each word, and work, and thought explore. And is it so? the fantasy is o’er That made enshrined art my idol still; And many a flying shade I chased before, As my chief good was but a specious ill! What, if when death has wrack’d his power to kill, The living death beyond the grave be mine. The pencil and the chisel have no skill To chain such thoughts to rest. O Love Divine Who didst spread wide thy arms on Calvary, Be thou my refuge, Lord! for I have none save thine!
At length life’s stormy voyage well nigh done, These waves shall toss my fragile bark no more, But ah! there waits the judge, the unerring one, Who shall each word, and work, and thought explore. And is it so? the fantasy is o’er That made enshrined art my idol still; And many a flying shade I chased before, As my chief good was but a specious ill! What, if when death has wrack’d his power to kill, The living death beyond the grave be mine. The pencil and the chisel have no skill To chain such thoughts to rest. O Love Divine Who didst spread wide thy arms on Calvary, Be thou my refuge, Lord! for I have none save thine!
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Michael Angelo (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 483 · printed citation: Michael Angelo · subject: REFUGE
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