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Eternal Spirit! Thou who think’st not scorn To make thyself a lowly habitant In the mean cottage of the human breast When purity has been thy harbinger: Come then, and lead the virtues in Thy train; Allot to each her office; ceaseless guard Still let them bold around this earth-born heart, And watch, with closest glance, its languid pulse.
Eternal Spirit! Thou who think’st not scorn To make thyself a lowly habitant In the mean cottage of the human breast When purity has been thy harbinger: Come then, and lead the virtues in Thy train; Allot to each her office; ceaseless guard Still let them bold around this earth-born heart, And watch, with closest glance, its languid pulse.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- John Hey (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 642 · printed citation: John Hey · subject: VIRTUE
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