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Spirit of Light! do Thou impart Majestic truths, and teach my heart; Teach me to know how weak I am, How vain my powers, how poor my frame; Teach me celestial paths untrod, The ways of glory and of God.
Spirit of Light! do Thou impart Majestic truths, and teach my heart; Teach me to know how weak I am, How vain my powers, how poor my frame; Teach me celestial paths untrod, The ways of glory and of God.
Approximate author period: c. 1793 AD · early modern
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- George Crabbe
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- Approximate author period: c. 1793 AD · early modern
author lifetime midpoint (1754–1832)
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 587 · printed citation: Crabbe · subject: TEACHING
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