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From heaven descend the drops of dew, From heaven the gracious showers, Earth’s winter aspect to renew, And clothe the spring with flowers; From heaven the beams of morning flow, That melt the gloom of night, From heaven the evening breezes blow Health, fragrance, and delight. Like genial dew, like fertile showers, The words of wisdom fall, Awaken man’s unconscious powers, Strength out of weakness call; Like morning beams they strike the mind, In loveliness reveal; And softer than the evening wind, The wounded spirit heal. As dew and rain, as light and air, From heaven Instruction came, The waste of nature to repair, And kindle sacred flame, A flame to purify the earth, Exalt her sons on high, And train them for their second birth— Their birth beyond the sky.
From heaven descend the drops of dew, From heaven the gracious showers, Earth’s winter aspect to renew, And clothe the spring with flowers; From heaven the beams of morning flow, That melt the gloom of night, From heaven the evening breezes blow Health, fragrance, and delight. Like genial dew, like fertile showers, The words of wisdom fall, Awaken man’s unconscious powers, Strength out of weakness call; Like morning beams they strike the mind, In loveliness reveal; And softer than the evening wind, The wounded spirit heal. As dew and rain, as light and air, From heaven Instruction came, The waste of nature to repair, And kindle sacred flame, A flame to purify the earth, Exalt her sons on high, And train them for their second birth— Their birth beyond the sky.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- J. Montgomery (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 322 · printed citation: J. Montgomery · subject: INSTRUCTION
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