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Clad in a robe of pure and spotless white, The youthful bride, with timid steps, comes forth To greet the hand to which she plights her troth, Her soft eyes radiant with a strange delight. The snowy veil which circles her around, Shades the sweet face from every gazer’s eye, And thus enwrapt, she passes calmly by— Nor casts a look, but on the unconscious ground. So should the Church, the bride elect of Heaven,— Remembering whom she goeth forth to meet, And with a truth that cannot brook deceit, Holding the faith which unto her is given— Pass through this world, which claims her for a while, Nor cast about her longing look nor smile.
Clad in a robe of pure and spotless white, The youthful bride, with timid steps, comes forth To greet the hand to which she plights her troth, Her soft eyes radiant with a strange delight. The snowy veil which circles her around, Shades the sweet face from every gazer’s eye, And thus enwrapt, she passes calmly by— Nor casts a look, but on the unconscious ground. So should the Church, the bride elect of Heaven,— Remembering whom she goeth forth to meet, And with a truth that cannot brook deceit, Holding the faith which unto her is given— Pass through this world, which claims her for a while, Nor cast about her longing look nor smile.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Mrs. Neal (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 125 · printed citation: Mrs. Neal · subject: CHURCH
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