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If yet the Holy Spirit deigns to dwell In earthly domes, ’tis not in those defiled With pride, with fraud, with rapine, or with lust; ’Midst the rough foliage of the thorny brake, The clustering grape not blushes, and the fig Decks not the prickly thistle’s barren stalk; Even thus shall all be measured by their fruits.
If yet the Holy Spirit deigns to dwell In earthly domes, ’tis not in those defiled With pride, with fraud, with rapine, or with lust; ’Midst the rough foliage of the thorny brake, The clustering grape not blushes, and the fig Decks not the prickly thistle’s barren stalk; Even thus shall all be measured by their fruits.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Charles Jenner (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 567 · printed citation: Charles Jenner · subject: SPIRIT
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