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Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates, The King of Glory comes! He comes to clothe This mortal in the unperishable garb Of immortality! Hear it, ye dead, Hear the glad tidings! and with trembling hope Expect that day, when at th’ Archangel’s trump, From the long sleep of many thousand years Ye shall awake—awake to sleep no more: Hear it, O living man, ere greedy Death Consigns thee to the prison of the tomb; Hear and be wise, seek thy Redeemer’s throne; On bending knees implore His healing grace, Chaunt forth His praise and venerate His name.
Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates, The King of Glory comes! He comes to clothe This mortal in the unperishable garb Of immortality! Hear it, ye dead, Hear the glad tidings! and with trembling hope Expect that day, when at th’ Archangel’s trump, From the long sleep of many thousand years Ye shall awake—awake to sleep no more: Hear it, O living man, ere greedy Death Consigns thee to the prison of the tomb; Hear and be wise, seek thy Redeemer’s throne; On bending knees implore His healing grace, Chaunt forth His praise and venerate His name.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- William Bolland (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 478 · printed citation: William Bolland · subject: REDEEMER
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