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If but one sun with his diffusive fires, Can fill the stars and the whole world with light, And joy and light into each heart inspires: And every saint shall shine in heaven as bright; As doth the sun in his transcendant might; (As faith may well believe what truth once says) What shall so many sun’s united rays But dazzle all the eyes that now in heaven we praise? Here let my Lord hang up his conquering lance, And bloody armour with late slaughter warm; And looking down on his weak militants, Behold his saints amidst their hot alarm, Hang all their golden hopes upon his arm; And on this lower field when straying wide Through Satan’s wiles, who would their sails misguide, Anchor their fleshly ships fast in his wounded side.
If but one sun with his diffusive fires, Can fill the stars and the whole world with light, And joy and light into each heart inspires: And every saint shall shine in heaven as bright; As doth the sun in his transcendant might; (As faith may well believe what truth once says) What shall so many sun’s united rays But dazzle all the eyes that now in heaven we praise? Here let my Lord hang up his conquering lance, And bloody armour with late slaughter warm; And looking down on his weak militants, Behold his saints amidst their hot alarm, Hang all their golden hopes upon his arm; And on this lower field when straying wide Through Satan’s wiles, who would their sails misguide, Anchor their fleshly ships fast in his wounded side.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Giles Fletcher (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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Page 516 · printed citation: Giles Fletcher · subject: SAINT
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