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O God! how beautiful the thought, How merciful the bless’d decree, That Grace can e’er be found, when sought, And nought shut out the soul from Thee. The cell may cramp, the fetters gall, The flame may scorch, the rack may tear; But torture, stake, or prison-wall, Can be endured with faith and prayer.
O God! how beautiful the thought, How merciful the bless’d decree, That Grace can e’er be found, when sought, And nought shut out the soul from Thee. The cell may cramp, the fetters gall, The flame may scorch, the rack may tear; But torture, stake, or prison-wall, Can be endured with faith and prayer.
Approximate author period: c. 1817 AD · industrial
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- Eliza Cook
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- Approximate author period: c. 1817 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 262 · printed citation: Eliza Cook · subject: GRACE
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