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Bright as the morning of primeval day Burst on the waters of chaotic gloom, Came Revelation on the darksome world!— Then error vanish’d in celestial truth, Hush’d were the oracles, and quench’d the fires That savage bigotry for ages fed: New light, new order, new existence rose! The pangs of woe, the wrongs of patient worth, Were now no more, as once their truth had been: Eternity would pay the debt of time, The soul redeem, and justify her God.
Bright as the morning of primeval day Burst on the waters of chaotic gloom, Came Revelation on the darksome world!— Then error vanish’d in celestial truth, Hush’d were the oracles, and quench’d the fires That savage bigotry for ages fed: New light, new order, new existence rose! The pangs of woe, the wrongs of patient worth, Were now no more, as once their truth had been: Eternity would pay the debt of time, The soul redeem, and justify her God.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- R. Montgomery (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 500 · printed citation: R. Montgomery · subject: REVELATION
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