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Immortal Truth! by inspiration taught, Thou spurn’st the servile chains of human art; In native majesty arrayed, thou shed’st Thy radiant beams through all this vale below; Thy piercing voice resounds through distant climes, By all distinguished, and by all adored.
Immortal Truth! by inspiration taught, Thou spurn’st the servile chains of human art; In native majesty arrayed, thou shed’st Thy radiant beams through all this vale below; Thy piercing voice resounds through distant climes, By all distinguished, and by all adored.
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 630 · printed citation: Charles Jenner · subject: TRUTH
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