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Jesus, in Thy transporting name What blissful glories rise! Jesus the angels’ sweetest theme! The wonder of the skies! Well might the skies with wonder view A love so strange as thine, No thought of angels ever knew Compassion so divine.
Jesus, in Thy transporting name What blissful glories rise! Jesus the angels’ sweetest theme! The wonder of the skies! Well might the skies with wonder view A love so strange as thine, No thought of angels ever knew Compassion so divine.
Approximate author period: c. 1700 AD · early modern
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- Sir Richard Steele
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- Approximate author period: c. 1700 AD · early modern
author lifetime midpoint (1671–1729)
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 330 · printed citation: Steele · subject: JESUS
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