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Look, Christian! in thy Bible, and that glass Which sheds its sands through minutes, hours, and days, And years; it speaks not: yet methinks it says To every human heart—“so mortals pass On to their dark and silent grave!” Alas! For man:—an exile upon earth he stays, Weary, and wandering through benighted ways; To-day in strength, to-morrow like the grass That withers at his feet. Lift up thy head, Poor pilgrim, toiling in this vale of tears; That book declares whose blood for thee was shed, Who died to give thee life; and though thy years Pass like a shade, pointing to thy death-bed, Out of the deep thy cry an angel hears, And by his guiding hand to heaven thy steps are led.
Look, Christian! in thy Bible, and that glass Which sheds its sands through minutes, hours, and days, And years; it speaks not: yet methinks it says To every human heart—“so mortals pass On to their dark and silent grave!” Alas! For man:—an exile upon earth he stays, Weary, and wandering through benighted ways; To-day in strength, to-morrow like the grass That withers at his feet. Lift up thy head, Poor pilgrim, toiling in this vale of tears; That book declares whose blood for thee was shed, Who died to give thee life; and though thy years Pass like a shade, pointing to thy death-bed, Out of the deep thy cry an angel hears, And by his guiding hand to heaven thy steps are led.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- W. Lisle Bowles (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 63 · printed citation: W. Lisle Bowles · subject: THE BIBLE
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