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How sweetly flowed the gospel’s sound, From lips of gentleness and grace, When listening thousands gathered round, And joy and reverence filled the place. From heaven He came—of heaven He spoke, To heaven He led his followers’ way; Dark clouds of gloomy night He broke, Unveiling an immortal day. “Come wanderers to my Father’s home, Come, all ye weary ones, and rest!” Yes, sacred Teacher.—we will come— Obey thee, love thee, and be blest.
How sweetly flowed the gospel’s sound, From lips of gentleness and grace, When listening thousands gathered round, And joy and reverence filled the place. From heaven He came—of heaven He spoke, To heaven He led his followers’ way; Dark clouds of gloomy night He broke, Unveiling an immortal day. “Come wanderers to my Father’s home, Come, all ye weary ones, and rest!” Yes, sacred Teacher.—we will come— Obey thee, love thee, and be blest.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Bowring (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)
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