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Of that same time when no more change shall be, But stedfastly rest all things, firmly stayed Upon the pillars of eternity, That is contraire to mutability; For all that moveth doth in change delight; But thenceforth all shall rest eternally, With Him that is the God of Sabaoth hight.
Of that same time when no more change shall be, But stedfastly rest all things, firmly stayed Upon the pillars of eternity, That is contraire to mutability; For all that moveth doth in change delight; But thenceforth all shall rest eternally, With Him that is the God of Sabaoth hight.
Approximate author period: c. 1576 AD · renaissance
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- Edmund Spenser
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- Approximate author period: c. 1576 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1553–1599)
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 203 · printed citation: Spenser · subject: ETERNITY
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