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Not all the pomp and pageantry of worlds Reflect such glory on the eye supreme, As the meek virtues of one holy man; For ever doth his angel, from the face Divine, beatitude and wisdom draw; And in his prayer, what privilege adored! Mounting the heavens, and claiming audience there; Yes! there, amid a high, immortal host Of seraphs, hymning in eternal choir, A lip of clay its orisons can send, In temple, or in solitude outbreathed.
Not all the pomp and pageantry of worlds Reflect such glory on the eye supreme, As the meek virtues of one holy man; For ever doth his angel, from the face Divine, beatitude and wisdom draw; And in his prayer, what privilege adored! Mounting the heavens, and claiming audience there; Yes! there, amid a high, immortal host Of seraphs, hymning in eternal choir, A lip of clay its orisons can send, In temple, or in solitude outbreathed.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- R. Montgomery (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 298 · printed citation: R. Montgomery · subject: HOLINESS
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