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I do believe myself the creature, Subject, and soldier, if I so may speak, Of an Almighty Father, King and Lord; Before whose presence, when my soul shall be Of flesh and blood disrobed, I shall appear, There to remain with all the great and good That e’er have lived on earth; yea, and with spirits Higher than earth e’er owned, in such pure bliss As human hearts conceive not,—if my life, With its imperfect virtue, find acceptance From pard’ning love and mercy; but if otherwise,— That I shall pass into a state of misery, With souls of wicked men and wrathful demons.
I do believe myself the creature, Subject, and soldier, if I so may speak, Of an Almighty Father, King and Lord; Before whose presence, when my soul shall be Of flesh and blood disrobed, I shall appear, There to remain with all the great and good That e’er have lived on earth; yea, and with spirits Higher than earth e’er owned, in such pure bliss As human hearts conceive not,—if my life, With its imperfect virtue, find acceptance From pard’ning love and mercy; but if otherwise,— That I shall pass into a state of misery, With souls of wicked men and wrathful demons.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Joanna Baillie (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 392 · printed citation: Joanna Baillie · subject: MISERY
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