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Daughter of faith, awake, arise, illume The dread unknown, the chaos of the tomb; Melt and dispel, ye spectre-doubts, that roll Cimmerian darkness on the parting soul! Fly, like the moon-eyed herald of dismay, Chased on his night-steed by the star of day! The strife is o’er—the pangs of nature close, And life’s last rapture triumph’s o’er her woes. Hark! as the spirit eyes, with eagle gaze, The noon of heaven undazzled by the blaze, On heavenly winds, that waft her to the sky, Float the sweet tones of star-born melody; Wild as that hallow’d anthem sent to hail Bethlehem’s shepherds in the lonely vale, When Jordan hush’d his waves, and midnight still Watched on the holy towers of Zion hill! Soul of the just! companion of the dead! Where is thy home, and whither art thou fled? Back to its heavenly source thy being goes, Swift as the comet wheels to whence he rose; Doom’d on his airy path awhile to burn, And doom’d, like thee, to travel and return.
Daughter of faith, awake, arise, illume The dread unknown, the chaos of the tomb; Melt and dispel, ye spectre-doubts, that roll Cimmerian darkness on the parting soul! Fly, like the moon-eyed herald of dismay, Chased on his night-steed by the star of day! The strife is o’er—the pangs of nature close, And life’s last rapture triumph’s o’er her woes. Hark! as the spirit eyes, with eagle gaze, The noon of heaven undazzled by the blaze, On heavenly winds, that waft her to the sky, Float the sweet tones of star-born melody; Wild as that hallow’d anthem sent to hail Bethlehem’s shepherds in the lonely vale, When Jordan hush’d his waves, and midnight still Watched on the holy towers of Zion hill! Soul of the just! companion of the dead! Where is thy home, and whither art thou fled? Back to its heavenly source thy being goes, Swift as the comet wheels to whence he rose; Doom’d on his airy path awhile to burn, And doom’d, like thee, to travel and return.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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Page 306 · printed citation: Campbell · subject: HOPE
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