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I prais’d the sea, whose ample field Shone glorious as a silver shield; I prais’d the earth in beauty seen, With garlands gay of various green; And earth and ocean seem’d to say, “Our beauties are but for a day.” I prais’d the sun, whose chariot roll’d On wheels of amber and of gold: I prais’d the moon, whose softer eye Gleam’d sweetly through the summer sky; And moon and sun in answer said, “Our days of light are numbered.” O God! O good beyond compare! If thus thy meaner works are fair; If thus thy bounties gild the span Of ruin’d earth and sinful man, How glorious must the mansion be, Where thy redeem’d shall dwell with thee.
I prais’d the sea, whose ample field Shone glorious as a silver shield; I prais’d the earth in beauty seen, With garlands gay of various green; And earth and ocean seem’d to say, “Our beauties are but for a day.” I prais’d the sun, whose chariot roll’d On wheels of amber and of gold: I prais’d the moon, whose softer eye Gleam’d sweetly through the summer sky; And moon and sun in answer said, “Our days of light are numbered.” O God! O good beyond compare! If thus thy meaner works are fair; If thus thy bounties gild the span Of ruin’d earth and sinful man, How glorious must the mansion be, Where thy redeem’d shall dwell with thee.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Bishop Heber (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 192 · printed citation: Bishop Heber · subject: DWELL—DWELLING
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