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Place me on some desert shore Foot of man ne’er wandered o’er; Lock me in a lonely cell Beneath some prison citadel; Still, here or there, within I find My quiet kingdom of the mind; Nay, ’mid the tempest fierce and dark, Float me in peril’s frailest barque, My quenchless soul could sit and think, And smile at danger’s dizziest brink; And wherefore? God, my God is still King of kings in good and ill; And where He dwelleth—every where— Safety supreme and peace are there; And where He reigneth—all around— Wisdom, and love, and power are found, And, reconciled to Him and bliss, “My mind to me a kingdom is.”
Place me on some desert shore Foot of man ne’er wandered o’er; Lock me in a lonely cell Beneath some prison citadel; Still, here or there, within I find My quiet kingdom of the mind; Nay, ’mid the tempest fierce and dark, Float me in peril’s frailest barque, My quenchless soul could sit and think, And smile at danger’s dizziest brink; And wherefore? God, my God is still King of kings in good and ill; And where He dwelleth—every where— Safety supreme and peace are there; And where He reigneth—all around— Wisdom, and love, and power are found, And, reconciled to Him and bliss, “My mind to me a kingdom is.”
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 515 · printed citation: Tupper · subject: SAFETY—SAVING
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