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From the throne of the Highest the mandate came forth, From the word of Omnipotent God; And the elements fashioned his footstool the earth, And the Heavens his holy abode: And his Spirit moved over the fathomless flood Of waters that fretted in darkness around, Until at his bidding, their turbulent mood Was hushed to a calm, and obedient they stood Where he fixed their perpetual bound. From the work of creation, which rose by his word, When finished the heavens and the earth; On the seventh day rested th’ Omnipotent Lord, As he looked on each beautiful birth:— On the firmament, stretched from the east to the west, On the far flowing sea, and the fast teeming land, And he saw they were good, and the Sabbath was blest, The Sabbath! the sanctified season of rest To the creatures that came from his hand.
From the throne of the Highest the mandate came forth, From the word of Omnipotent God; And the elements fashioned his footstool the earth, And the Heavens his holy abode: And his Spirit moved over the fathomless flood Of waters that fretted in darkness around, Until at his bidding, their turbulent mood Was hushed to a calm, and obedient they stood Where he fixed their perpetual bound. From the work of creation, which rose by his word, When finished the heavens and the earth; On the seventh day rested th’ Omnipotent Lord, As he looked on each beautiful birth:— On the firmament, stretched from the east to the west, On the far flowing sea, and the fast teeming land, And he saw they were good, and the Sabbath was blest, The Sabbath! the sanctified season of rest To the creatures that came from his hand.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 155 · printed citation: Knox · subject: CREATION
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