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The azure vault, the crystal circles bright, The gleaming, fiery torches powdered there, The changing round, the shining, beamy light, The sad and bearded fires, the monsters fair, And prodigies appearing in the air; The rending thunders, and the blust’ring winds, The birds in hue, and shape, and nature rare; The pretty notes of winged musicians fine; Of earth the saucy flowers, the metalled mine, The wholesome herbs, the healthful, pleasant trees, The silver streams, the beasts of sundry kinds; The bounding waves and fishes of the seas: All these for teaching man the Lord did frame, To do His will whose glory shines in flame.
The azure vault, the crystal circles bright, The gleaming, fiery torches powdered there, The changing round, the shining, beamy light, The sad and bearded fires, the monsters fair, And prodigies appearing in the air; The rending thunders, and the blust’ring winds, The birds in hue, and shape, and nature rare; The pretty notes of winged musicians fine; Of earth the saucy flowers, the metalled mine, The wholesome herbs, the healthful, pleasant trees, The silver streams, the beasts of sundry kinds; The bounding waves and fishes of the seas: All these for teaching man the Lord did frame, To do His will whose glory shines in flame.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- King James I (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 587 · printed citation: King James I · subject: TEACHING
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