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Elysian race! while o’er their slumbering flocks The Galilean shepherds watched, ye came To sing hosannas to the heaven-born Babe, And shed the brightness of your beauty round: Nor have ye left the world, but still, unseen, Surround the earth, as guardians of the good, Inspiring souls, and leading them to heaven; And oh! when shadows of the state unknown Advance, and life endures the grasp of death, ’Tis yours to hallow and illume the mind, The starry wreath to bring, by angels worn, And crown the spirit for her native sphere.
Elysian race! while o’er their slumbering flocks The Galilean shepherds watched, ye came To sing hosannas to the heaven-born Babe, And shed the brightness of your beauty round: Nor have ye left the world, but still, unseen, Surround the earth, as guardians of the good, Inspiring souls, and leading them to heaven; And oh! when shadows of the state unknown Advance, and life endures the grasp of death, ’Tis yours to hallow and illume the mind, The starry wreath to bring, by angels worn, And crown the spirit for her native sphere.
Approximate author period: c. 1831 AD · industrial
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- Robert Montgomery
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- Approximate author period: c. 1831 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 30 · printed citation: Robert Montgomery · subject: ANGELS
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