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Father! in Christ we live, and Christ in Thee! Eternal Thou, and everlasting we. The heir of heaven, henceforth I fear not death: In Christ I live! in Christ I draw the breath Of the true life! Let then earth, sea, and sky Make war against me! on my front I show Their mighty Master’s seal. In vain they try To end my life, that can but end its woe. Is that a death-bed where the Christian lies? Yes! but not his—’tis death itself there dies.
Father! in Christ we live, and Christ in Thee! Eternal Thou, and everlasting we. The heir of heaven, henceforth I fear not death: In Christ I live! in Christ I draw the breath Of the true life! Let then earth, sea, and sky Make war against me! on my front I show Their mighty Master’s seal. In vain they try To end my life, that can but end its woe. Is that a death-bed where the Christian lies? Yes! but not his—’tis death itself there dies.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- S. T. Coleridge (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 119 · printed citation: S. T. Coleridge · subject: CHRIST—CHRISTMAS
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