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Soul of the world, All-seeing Eye, Where, where shall man Thy presence fly? Say, would he climb the starry height? All Heaven is instinct with Thy Light:— Dwell in the darkness of the grave? Yea, Thou art there to judge and save. In vain on wings of morn we soar, In vain the realms of space explore, In vain retreat to shades of night,— From what can veil us from Thy sight? Distance dissolves before Thy ray, And darkness kindles into day.
Soul of the world, All-seeing Eye, Where, where shall man Thy presence fly? Say, would he climb the starry height? All Heaven is instinct with Thy Light:— Dwell in the darkness of the grave? Yea, Thou art there to judge and save. In vain on wings of morn we soar, In vain the realms of space explore, In vain retreat to shades of night,— From what can veil us from Thy sight? Distance dissolves before Thy ray, And darkness kindles into day.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- William Peter (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 463 · printed citation: William Peter · subject: PRESENCE—OMNIPRESENCE
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