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Source of light! thou mak’st the sun On his burning axles run: The stars like dust around him fly, And strew the area of the sky: He drives so swift his race above, Mortals can’t perceive him move; To smooth his course oblique or straight, Olympus shakes not with his weight. As the queen of solemn night, Fills at his vase her orb of light, Imparted lustre, thus we see The solar virtues shine by thee! Phœbus borrows from thy beams His radiant locks, and golden streams! Whence thy warmth and light disperse, To cheer the grateful universe.
Source of light! thou mak’st the sun On his burning axles run: The stars like dust around him fly, And strew the area of the sky: He drives so swift his race above, Mortals can’t perceive him move; To smooth his course oblique or straight, Olympus shakes not with his weight. As the queen of solemn night, Fills at his vase her orb of light, Imparted lustre, thus we see The solar virtues shine by thee! Phœbus borrows from thy beams His radiant locks, and golden streams! Whence thy warmth and light disperse, To cheer the grateful universe.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Samuel Wesley (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 580 · printed citation: Samuel Wesley · subject: SUN
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