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God’s altar grasping with an eager hand, Fear, the wild-visaged, pale, eye-starting wretch, Sure-refuged, hears his hot-pursuing fiends Yell at vain distance. Soon refreshed from Heaven, He calms the throb and tempest of his heart, His countenance settles; a soft solemn bliss Swims in his eye—his swimming eye upraised: And faith’s whole armour glitters on his limbs! And thus transfigured with a dreadless awe, A solemn hush of soul, meek he beholds All things of terrible seeming.
God’s altar grasping with an eager hand, Fear, the wild-visaged, pale, eye-starting wretch, Sure-refuged, hears his hot-pursuing fiends Yell at vain distance. Soon refreshed from Heaven, He calms the throb and tempest of his heart, His countenance settles; a soft solemn bliss Swims in his eye—his swimming eye upraised: And faith’s whole armour glitters on his limbs! And thus transfigured with a dreadless awe, A solemn hush of soul, meek he beholds All things of terrible seeming.
Approximate author period: c. 1803 AD · industrial
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- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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- Approximate author period: c. 1803 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 222 · printed citation: Coleridge · subject: FEAR
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