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Hark! What petty pulses, beating, Spring new moments into light; Every pulse, its stroke repeating, Sends its moment back to night; Yet not one of all the train Comes uncall’d, or flits in vain. In the highest realms of glory Spirits trace, before the throne, On eternal scrolls, the story Of each little moment flown; Every deed, and word, and thought, Through the whole creation wrought. Were the volume of a minute Thus to mortal sight unroll’d, More of sin and sorrow in it, More of man, might we behold, Than on history’s broadest page In the reliques of an age.
Hark! What petty pulses, beating, Spring new moments into light; Every pulse, its stroke repeating, Sends its moment back to night; Yet not one of all the train Comes uncall’d, or flits in vain. In the highest realms of glory Spirits trace, before the throne, On eternal scrolls, the story Of each little moment flown; Every deed, and word, and thought, Through the whole creation wrought. Were the volume of a minute Thus to mortal sight unroll’d, More of sin and sorrow in it, More of man, might we behold, Than on history’s broadest page In the reliques of an age.
Approximate author period: c. 1812 AD · industrial
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- James Montgomery
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- Approximate author period: c. 1812 AD · industrial
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Page 396 · printed citation: James Montgomery · subject: MOMENT—MINUTE
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