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Behold the awful Deity enthroned In darkness awful—inaccessible, And order almost unto chaos changed; Tremendous gloom! that blots the sun’s bright beams, And more than midnight horrors shroud the skies, The faint grey twilight gleaming thro’ the clouds, Discover, floating on a shoreless sea, The chosen eight embosom’d in the Ark, One family preserved to renovate The world, Jehovah’s judgments have destroyed. ***** But see the bow its new-created dyes Begin to beam propitious from the cloud— “Destructive waters shall no more prevail, No more become a flood upon the earth.”
Behold the awful Deity enthroned In darkness awful—inaccessible, And order almost unto chaos changed; Tremendous gloom! that blots the sun’s bright beams, And more than midnight horrors shroud the skies, The faint grey twilight gleaming thro’ the clouds, Discover, floating on a shoreless sea, The chosen eight embosom’d in the Ark, One family preserved to renovate The world, Jehovah’s judgments have destroyed. ***** But see the bow its new-created dyes Begin to beam propitious from the cloud— “Destructive waters shall no more prevail, No more become a flood upon the earth.”
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- S. Hughes (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 226 · printed citation: S. Hughes · subject: FLOOD
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