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High on a throne of burnish’d gold, With rays of Godhead crown’d, Jehovah sat; His thunders roll’d, And glory sparkled round. His flowing train, of glittering white, The spacious temple fill’d; The angels, dazzled at the sight, With wings their faces veil’d. Around the throne, in burning row, The six-winged seraphs stood; While millions, flying to and fro, Tun’d all their harps to God. Thrice holy, holy, Lord, they cry, The God of Sabaoth’s Thou; Thy glory fills the worlds on high, And fills the world below.
High on a throne of burnish’d gold, With rays of Godhead crown’d, Jehovah sat; His thunders roll’d, And glory sparkled round. His flowing train, of glittering white, The spacious temple fill’d; The angels, dazzled at the sight, With wings their faces veil’d. Around the throne, in burning row, The six-winged seraphs stood; While millions, flying to and fro, Tun’d all their harps to God. Thrice holy, holy, Lord, they cry, The God of Sabaoth’s Thou; Thy glory fills the worlds on high, And fills the world below.
Approximate author period: c. 1765 AD · early modern
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- William Cowper
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- Approximate author period: c. 1765 AD · early modern
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 113 · printed citation: Cowper · subject: CHERUB—SERAPH
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