quote · Legacy record
By thee, dear Mother, o’er whose darksome bed Summer now pours his beams in vain—by thee Gladly my infant love of flowers was fed; By thee my steps through flow’ry tracts were led, Where ne’er mine eye could aught but beauty see; Throughout our borne exotics perfume shed, In sooth, it was fair Flora’s treasury! Thy love, and use of heaven’s blest means of grace, Faith bids me trust, have placed thee with thy God, Where flowers unfading deck the lovely place. Oh, when I’ve closed my toilsome earthly race, With thee may those bright scenes by me be trod, With thee may I behold th’ eternal face.
By thee, dear Mother, o’er whose darksome bed Summer now pours his beams in vain—by thee Gladly my infant love of flowers was fed; By thee my steps through flow’ry tracts were led, Where ne’er mine eye could aught but beauty see; Throughout our borne exotics perfume shed, In sooth, it was fair Flora’s treasury! Thy love, and use of heaven’s blest means of grace, Faith bids me trust, have placed thee with thy God, Where flowers unfading deck the lovely place. Oh, when I’ve closed my toilsome earthly race, With thee may those bright scenes by me be trod, With thee may I behold th’ eternal face.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- William Pulling (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 404 · printed citation: William Pulling · subject: MOTHER
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