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Home of the Christian! when Messiah comes A scene of Heaven in miniature art thou, Where all is redolent of charms divine, Temper renewed, and souls of grave becalmed. Thy quiet precincts of a purer world Breathe to the heart of faith, and, when compared With what the worldling in his home enjoys.— E’en like the vexing hum of some large street, Where all is haste and hurry, tramp and strife, In contrast with the unpolluted calm Of some cathedral, when a spirit’s hush Hath brooded—seems that worldlings’ noisy hour.
Home of the Christian! when Messiah comes A scene of Heaven in miniature art thou, Where all is redolent of charms divine, Temper renewed, and souls of grave becalmed. Thy quiet precincts of a purer world Breathe to the heart of faith, and, when compared With what the worldling in his home enjoys.— E’en like the vexing hum of some large street, Where all is haste and hurry, tramp and strife, In contrast with the unpolluted calm Of some cathedral, when a spirit’s hush Hath brooded—seems that worldlings’ noisy hour.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- R. Montgomery (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 301 · printed citation: R. Montgomery · subject: HOME
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