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But O, her richest, dearest notes to man, In strains aerial over Bethlehem poured, When He, whose brightness is the light of Heaven, To earth descending, for a mortal’s form, Laid by His glory, save one radiant mark, That moved through space, and o’er the infant hung, He summoned Music to attend Him here, Announcing peace below! He called her, too, To sweeten that sad Supper, and to twine Her mantles round Him and His few grieved friends, To join their mournful spirits with the hymn, Ere to the Mount of Olives He went out So sorrowful. And now, His blessed word, A sacred pledge, is left to dying man, That at His second coming, in His power, Music shall still be with Him, and her voice Sound through the tombs, and wake the dead to life.
But O, her richest, dearest notes to man, In strains aerial over Bethlehem poured, When He, whose brightness is the light of Heaven, To earth descending, for a mortal’s form, Laid by His glory, save one radiant mark, That moved through space, and o’er the infant hung, He summoned Music to attend Him here, Announcing peace below! He called her, too, To sweeten that sad Supper, and to twine Her mantles round Him and His few grieved friends, To join their mournful spirits with the hymn, Ere to the Mount of Olives He went out So sorrowful. And now, His blessed word, A sacred pledge, is left to dying man, That at His second coming, in His power, Music shall still be with Him, and her voice Sound through the tombs, and wake the dead to life.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Hannah F. Gould (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 411 · printed citation: Hannah F. Gould · subject: MUSIC
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