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O Thou bless’d Spirit: whether the Supreme Great ante-mundane Father; in whose breast Embryo creation, unborn being, dwelt, And all its various revolutions rolled, Present though future; prior to themselves Whose breath can blow it into naught again, Or from His throne some delegated power, Who studious of our peace, dost turn the thought From vain and vile to solid and sublime! Unseen Thou lead’st me to delicious draughts Of Inspiration, from a purer stream, And fuller of the God, than that which burst From famed Castalia.
O Thou bless’d Spirit: whether the Supreme Great ante-mundane Father; in whose breast Embryo creation, unborn being, dwelt, And all its various revolutions rolled, Present though future; prior to themselves Whose breath can blow it into naught again, Or from His throne some delegated power, Who studious of our peace, dost turn the thought From vain and vile to solid and sublime! Unseen Thou lead’st me to delicious draughts Of Inspiration, from a purer stream, And fuller of the God, than that which burst From famed Castalia.
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 321 · printed citation: Young · subject: INSPIRATION
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