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Be every knee To Christ in homage bent! Be every heart In adoration, and in fervent prayer, To Him poured forth! From His all-gracious birth, The day-spring from on high descends: grim death, Stripped of his boasted empire, prostrate falls: The cerements of the dank, victorious grave Are burst asunder: th’ adamantine gates Of Paradise unbarred: man’s forfeit race From the deep gulf of Erebus redeemed, To life, to immortality arise.
Be every knee To Christ in homage bent! Be every heart In adoration, and in fervent prayer, To Him poured forth! From His all-gracious birth, The day-spring from on high descends: grim death, Stripped of his boasted empire, prostrate falls: The cerements of the dank, victorious grave Are burst asunder: th’ adamantine gates Of Paradise unbarred: man’s forfeit race From the deep gulf of Erebus redeemed, To life, to immortality arise.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Samuel Hayes (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 482 · printed citation: Samuel Hayes · subject: REDEMPTION
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