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Faith! anchor of the soul amid the storms Which vex and toss the ocean deep, which forms The pathway to that land of light and love, Which waits the ransom’d in the world above; While this life lasts, I fain would stay on thee; I shall not need thee in eternity. Hope! be thou mine, while here on earth I rove, But only till I reach my home above: But Charity! of christian graces best, Ever increasing, blessing still and blest, Thou shalt remain when Faith and Hope shall cease, The source and fulness e’en of Heaven’s bliss! No period circumscribes my prayer for thee; Be mine on earth, and through eternity!
Faith! anchor of the soul amid the storms Which vex and toss the ocean deep, which forms The pathway to that land of light and love, Which waits the ransom’d in the world above; While this life lasts, I fain would stay on thee; I shall not need thee in eternity. Hope! be thou mine, while here on earth I rove, But only till I reach my home above: But Charity! of christian graces best, Ever increasing, blessing still and blest, Thou shalt remain when Faith and Hope shall cease, The source and fulness e’en of Heaven’s bliss! No period circumscribes my prayer for thee; Be mine on earth, and through eternity!
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Mary Milner (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
In print by 1888: recorded in A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 263 · printed citation: Mary Milner · subject: GRACE
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