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Gaze but upon the house where man doth live, With flowers and verdure to adorn his way; Where all the creatures due obedience give; The winds to sweep his chambers every day; The clouds to wash his rooms, the ceiling gay With glittering stars, that night’s dark empire brave; If such an house God to another gave, How shine those splendid courts He for Himself will have? And if a heavy cloud, opaque at night, In which the sun may seem embodied, Deprived of all its dregs we see so white, Burning in liquid gold its watery head, Or round with ivory edges silvered; What lustre supereminent will He Lighten on those who shall his sunshine see In that all-glorious court, in which all glories be.
Gaze but upon the house where man doth live, With flowers and verdure to adorn his way; Where all the creatures due obedience give; The winds to sweep his chambers every day; The clouds to wash his rooms, the ceiling gay With glittering stars, that night’s dark empire brave; If such an house God to another gave, How shine those splendid courts He for Himself will have? And if a heavy cloud, opaque at night, In which the sun may seem embodied, Deprived of all its dregs we see so white, Burning in liquid gold its watery head, Or round with ivory edges silvered; What lustre supereminent will He Lighten on those who shall his sunshine see In that all-glorious court, in which all glories be.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Giles Fletcher (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 151 · printed citation: Giles Fletcher · subject: COURT
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