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Eternal Lord of light and life; the soul Of nature and the Deity of all, Whose spirit bending o’er the wondrous whole, Suffers unwill’d, no flower or bird to fall: Can the proud eye look upwards to yon dome, Or view the rich array spread forth below, And not feel pledges of a dearer home, That make the bosom leap, the spirit glow, And stretch its hopes far into eternity, Till, like the Patriarch’s dove, it rests, great Lord on Thee. On Thee, its ark of perfect holiness, With tokens of its everlasting peace, And certainty of fadeless joy to bless It in a higher state when time shall cease, The stars shall burn; those living orbs were fed With pure effulgence from Thy vital ray, To light us deep into Thy essence, shed Abroad through earth and air by night and day: Fill’d with that glory would my spirit soar, And, although trembling, yet exultingly, adore.
Eternal Lord of light and life; the soul Of nature and the Deity of all, Whose spirit bending o’er the wondrous whole, Suffers unwill’d, no flower or bird to fall: Can the proud eye look upwards to yon dome, Or view the rich array spread forth below, And not feel pledges of a dearer home, That make the bosom leap, the spirit glow, And stretch its hopes far into eternity, Till, like the Patriarch’s dove, it rests, great Lord on Thee. On Thee, its ark of perfect holiness, With tokens of its everlasting peace, And certainty of fadeless joy to bless It in a higher state when time shall cease, The stars shall burn; those living orbs were fed With pure effulgence from Thy vital ray, To light us deep into Thy essence, shed Abroad through earth and air by night and day: Fill’d with that glory would my spirit soar, And, although trembling, yet exultingly, adore.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- W. Martin (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 617 · printed citation: W. Martin · subject: TREMBLING
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