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Such my belief. Oh, that thou would’st thy bold, Infatuated, withering doubt discard! The flower would be more sweet, the moon more fresh, The sun more bright, the sky more blue, the night (The natural season for deep thought) less dark: Life’s cares, and wan disease, would blessings be, And death (annihilation’s herald now) The harbinger of everlasting bliss. Dare then be wise. Dash down the subtle web, Thy pride of intellect had round thee wove, Despised into the dust; believe in God; Obey His will;—and then thy rescued soul Shall, on angelic pinions, wing its way To heaven’s bright realms of pure beatitude.
Such my belief. Oh, that thou would’st thy bold, Infatuated, withering doubt discard! The flower would be more sweet, the moon more fresh, The sun more bright, the sky more blue, the night (The natural season for deep thought) less dark: Life’s cares, and wan disease, would blessings be, And death (annihilation’s herald now) The harbinger of everlasting bliss. Dare then be wise. Dash down the subtle web, Thy pride of intellect had round thee wove, Despised into the dust; believe in God; Obey His will;—and then thy rescued soul Shall, on angelic pinions, wing its way To heaven’s bright realms of pure beatitude.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- T. L. Merritt (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
In print by 1888: recorded in A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 55 · printed citation: T. L. Merritt · subject: BELIEF—UNBELIEF
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