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How sweetly wide this Sabbath morn The chime of village bells is sent O’er the hamlets, o’er the fields, With Sabbath sunshine blent. The noble hears and quits his hall— The peasant quits his cottage-home; All cheerfully, all pleasantly, To church the people come. They come from far-off heathy moors, From lonely farms, from quiet dells, Led strongly, irresistibly, By the sweet chime of Sabbath bells. Across the fields, across the green, From shades emerge they to the light; And seen in groups, or singly seen, It is a charming sight.
How sweetly wide this Sabbath morn The chime of village bells is sent O’er the hamlets, o’er the fields, With Sabbath sunshine blent. The noble hears and quits his hall— The peasant quits his cottage-home; All cheerfully, all pleasantly, To church the people come. They come from far-off heathy moors, From lonely farms, from quiet dells, Led strongly, irresistibly, By the sweet chime of Sabbath bells. Across the fields, across the green, From shades emerge they to the light; And seen in groups, or singly seen, It is a charming sight.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Richard Howitt (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)
Page 126 · printed citation: Richard Howitt · subject: CHURCH
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