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It is the Sabbath bell, which calls to pray’r, Ev’n to the house of God, the hallow’d dome, Where He who claims it bids His people come To bow before His throne, and serve him there With pray’rs, and thanks, and praises: some there are Who bold it meet to linger now at home, And some o’er fields and the wide hills to roam, And worship in the temple of the air! For me, not heedless of the lone address, Nor slack to greet my maker on the height, By wood, or living stream; yet not the less Seek I His presence in each social rite Of His own temple: that He deigns to bless, There still He dwells, and there is His delight.
It is the Sabbath bell, which calls to pray’r, Ev’n to the house of God, the hallow’d dome, Where He who claims it bids His people come To bow before His throne, and serve him there With pray’rs, and thanks, and praises: some there are Who bold it meet to linger now at home, And some o’er fields and the wide hills to roam, And worship in the temple of the air! For me, not heedless of the lone address, Nor slack to greet my maker on the height, By wood, or living stream; yet not the less Seek I His presence in each social rite Of His own temple: that He deigns to bless, There still He dwells, and there is His delight.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Bishop Mant (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 309 · printed citation: Bishop Mant · subject: HOUSE
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