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Even as Elias, mounting to the sky, Did cast his mantle to the earth behind, So, when the heart presents the prayer on high, Exclude the world from traffic with the mind: Lips near to God, and ranging heart within, Is but vain babbling, and converts to sin.
Even as Elias, mounting to the sky, Did cast his mantle to the earth behind, So, when the heart presents the prayer on high, Exclude the world from traffic with the mind: Lips near to God, and ranging heart within, Is but vain babbling, and converts to sin.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Robert Southwell (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 456 · printed citation: Robert Southwell · subject: PRAYER
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