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He that alone would wise and mighty be, Commands that others love, as well as He. Love as He loved! how can we soar so high? He can add wings when He commands to fly. Nor should we be with this command dismayed, He that examples gives, will give His aid; For He took flesh, that where His precepts fail, His practice as a pattern might prevail.
He that alone would wise and mighty be, Commands that others love, as well as He. Love as He loved! how can we soar so high? He can add wings when He commands to fly. Nor should we be with this command dismayed, He that examples gives, will give His aid; For He took flesh, that where His precepts fail, His practice as a pattern might prevail.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Waller (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 118 · printed citation: Waller · subject: CHRIST—CHRISTMAS
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