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In deserts of the Holy Land I strayed, Where Christ once lived, but seems to live no more, On Lebanon my lonely home I made, I heard the wind among the cedars roar, And saw, far off, the Great Sea’s solemn shore: “But ’tis a dreary wilderness,” I said, Now the prophetic spirit hence has fled: Then, from a convent in the vale, I heard, Slow-chanted forth, the everlasting Word, Saying “I am he that liveth, and was dead, And lo! I am alive for evermore.” Then forth upon my pilgrimage I fare, Resolved to find and praise Him everywhere.
In deserts of the Holy Land I strayed, Where Christ once lived, but seems to live no more, On Lebanon my lonely home I made, I heard the wind among the cedars roar, And saw, far off, the Great Sea’s solemn shore: “But ’tis a dreary wilderness,” I said, Now the prophetic spirit hence has fled: Then, from a convent in the vale, I heard, Slow-chanted forth, the everlasting Word, Saying “I am he that liveth, and was dead, And lo! I am alive for evermore.” Then forth upon my pilgrimage I fare, Resolved to find and praise Him everywhere.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- J. Gostick (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 357 · printed citation: J. Gostick · subject: LIFE
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