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O, all-preparing Providence divine! In thy large book, what secrets are enrolled, What sundry helps doth Thy great power assign, To prop the course which Thou intend’st to hold! What mortal sense is able to define Thy mysteries, Thy councils manifold! It is Thy wisdom strangely that extends Obscure proceedings to apparent ends.
O, all-preparing Providence divine! In thy large book, what secrets are enrolled, What sundry helps doth Thy great power assign, To prop the course which Thou intend’st to hold! What mortal sense is able to define Thy mysteries, Thy councils manifold! It is Thy wisdom strangely that extends Obscure proceedings to apparent ends.
Approximate author period: c. 1597 AD · renaissance
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- Michael Drayton
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- Approximate author period: c. 1597 AD · renaissance
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 449 · printed citation: Michael Drayton · subject: POWER
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