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Be silent and still, for his end draweth near, And watch with a quivering breath; No mortal eye beheld his birth, But all shall behold his death, For the nations from every land and clime Shall gather to gaze on the close of Time. The Moon shall look down with a tearful eye, And the Sun shall withhold his fire, And the hoary Earth, all parched and dry, Shall flame for his funeral pyre, When the Angel, that standeth on earth and shore, Proclaimeth that “Time shall be no more!”
Be silent and still, for his end draweth near, And watch with a quivering breath; No mortal eye beheld his birth, But all shall behold his death, For the nations from every land and clime Shall gather to gaze on the close of Time. The Moon shall look down with a tearful eye, And the Sun shall withhold his fire, And the hoary Earth, all parched and dry, Shall flame for his funeral pyre, When the Angel, that standeth on earth and shore, Proclaimeth that “Time shall be no more!”
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Edward Pollok (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 609 · printed citation: Edward Pollok · subject: TIME
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