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O Death! Thou great invisible, Pale monarch of the unending Past, Who shall thy countless trophies tell, Or when shall be thy last! By thee high thrones to earth are flung— By thee the sword and sceptre rust— By thee the beautiful and young Lie mouldering in the dust. Into thy cold and faded reign All glorious things of earth depart; The fairest forms are early slain, And quenched the fiery heart. But in yon world thou hast not been, Where joy can fade, nor beauty fall: O, mightiest of the things unseen, Save One that ruleth all!
O Death! Thou great invisible, Pale monarch of the unending Past, Who shall thy countless trophies tell, Or when shall be thy last! By thee high thrones to earth are flung— By thee the sword and sceptre rust— By thee the beautiful and young Lie mouldering in the dust. Into thy cold and faded reign All glorious things of earth depart; The fairest forms are early slain, And quenched the fiery heart. But in yon world thou hast not been, Where joy can fade, nor beauty fall: O, mightiest of the things unseen, Save One that ruleth all!
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Geo. H. Colton (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 173 · printed citation: Geo. H. Colton · subject: DEATH
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