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Hail, holy love! ethereal essence, hail! Heaven’s earliest offspring, earliest visitant From thence to earth, here latest found to soothe Man’s burdened heart, with pains and griefs oppressed, (Sad fruit of disobedience,) thou, ere time His race had yet begun, the glorious plan Of mercy didst devise, the day of grace, That with mild lustre dawned in Eden’s shades, What time primeval sinners strove to hide (Vain subterfuge!) from God’s all-piercing eye Their guilt and shame; and thousand promises With kindling radiance on the raptured mind Of patriarchs, and kings, and prophets rose, And saints expectant.
Hail, holy love! ethereal essence, hail! Heaven’s earliest offspring, earliest visitant From thence to earth, here latest found to soothe Man’s burdened heart, with pains and griefs oppressed, (Sad fruit of disobedience,) thou, ere time His race had yet begun, the glorious plan Of mercy didst devise, the day of grace, That with mild lustre dawned in Eden’s shades, What time primeval sinners strove to hide (Vain subterfuge!) from God’s all-piercing eye Their guilt and shame; and thousand promises With kindling radiance on the raptured mind Of patriarchs, and kings, and prophets rose, And saints expectant.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- S. Stennet (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 371 · printed citation: S. Stennet · subject: LOVE
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