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Look up to Heaven! the industrious sun Already half his race hath run, He cannot halt nor go astray, But our immortal spirits may. Lord! since his rising in the east, If we have faltered or transgressed, Guide, from thy love’s abundant source, What yet remains of this day’s course. Help with thy grace through life’s short day Our upward and our downward way, And glorify for us the west, When we shall sink to final rest.
Look up to Heaven! the industrious sun Already half his race hath run, He cannot halt nor go astray, But our immortal spirits may. Lord! since his rising in the east, If we have faltered or transgressed, Guide, from thy love’s abundant source, What yet remains of this day’s course. Help with thy grace through life’s short day Our upward and our downward way, And glorify for us the west, When we shall sink to final rest.
Approximate author period: c. 1810 AD · industrial
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- William Wordsworth
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- Approximate author period: c. 1810 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 579 · printed citation: Wordsworth · subject: SUN
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