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Rise, crowned with light, imperial Salem, rise! Exalt thy towering head, and lift thine eyes! See a long race thy spacious courts adorn; See future sons, and daughters yet unborn, In crowding ranks, on every side arise, Discarding life, impatient for the skies! See barbarous nations at thy gates attend, Walk in thy light, and in thy temple bend.
Rise, crowned with light, imperial Salem, rise! Exalt thy towering head, and lift thine eyes! See a long race thy spacious courts adorn; See future sons, and daughters yet unborn, In crowding ranks, on every side arise, Discarding life, impatient for the skies! See barbarous nations at thy gates attend, Walk in thy light, and in thy temple bend.
Approximate author period: c. 1716 AD · early modern
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- Alexander Pope
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- Approximate author period: c. 1716 AD · early modern
author lifetime midpoint (1688–1744)
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 594 · printed citation: Pope · subject: TEMPLE
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