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But above all, in her own light array’d, See mercy’s grand apocalypse display’d! The sacred book no longer suffers wrong, Bound in the fetters of an unknown tongue; But speaks with plainness, art could never mend, What simplest minds can soonest comprehend. God gives the word, the preachers throng around, Live from his lips, and spread the glorious sound: That sound bespeaks salvation on her way, The trumpet of a life-restoring day; ’Tis heard where England’s eastern glory shines, And in the gulfs of her Cornubian mines. And still it spreads. See Germany send forth Her sons to pour it on the farthest north: Fired with a zeal peculiar, they defy The rage and rigour of a polar sky, And plant successfully sweet Sharon’s rose On icy plains, and in eternal snows.
But above all, in her own light array’d, See mercy’s grand apocalypse display’d! The sacred book no longer suffers wrong, Bound in the fetters of an unknown tongue; But speaks with plainness, art could never mend, What simplest minds can soonest comprehend. God gives the word, the preachers throng around, Live from his lips, and spread the glorious sound: That sound bespeaks salvation on her way, The trumpet of a life-restoring day; ’Tis heard where England’s eastern glory shines, And in the gulfs of her Cornubian mines. And still it spreads. See Germany send forth Her sons to pour it on the farthest north: Fired with a zeal peculiar, they defy The rage and rigour of a polar sky, And plant successfully sweet Sharon’s rose On icy plains, and in eternal snows.
Approximate author period: c. 1765 AD · early modern
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- William Cowper
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- Approximate author period: c. 1765 AD · early modern
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 460 · printed citation: Cowper · subject: PREACHING
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