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O for a message from above To bear my spirit up! Some pledge of my Creator’s love To calm my terrors and support my hope! Let waves and thunders mix and roar; Be thou my God, and the whole world is mine: While thou art Sovereign, I’m secure; I shall be rich till Thou art poor; For all I fear, and all I wish, Heaven, Earth, and Hell, are thine.
O for a message from above To bear my spirit up! Some pledge of my Creator’s love To calm my terrors and support my hope! Let waves and thunders mix and roar; Be thou my God, and the whole world is mine: While thou art Sovereign, I’m secure; I shall be rich till Thou art poor; For all I fear, and all I wish, Heaven, Earth, and Hell, are thine.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 386 · printed citation: Watts · subject: MESSAGE
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