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The mighty Lord of heaven and earth, By Gihon’s pure and placid stream, That from the new-born hills came forth, To sparkle in the sun’s young beam— Upraised, all lovely as a dream To hearts of holy feeling given, The garden-bowers with joy that teem For the peculiar wards of heaven:— For man and woman—blessed pair! In innocence and beauty made: With sinless lips to breathe the air, Whose odorous gales around them played; With hearts as pure as dew-drops laid Within the rose’s virgin breast; With souls that never felt a shade Of gloom upon their prospects rest.
The mighty Lord of heaven and earth, By Gihon’s pure and placid stream, That from the new-born hills came forth, To sparkle in the sun’s young beam— Upraised, all lovely as a dream To hearts of holy feeling given, The garden-bowers with joy that teem For the peculiar wards of heaven:— For man and woman—blessed pair! In innocence and beauty made: With sinless lips to breathe the air, Whose odorous gales around them played; With hearts as pure as dew-drops laid Within the rose’s virgin breast; With souls that never felt a shade Of gloom upon their prospects rest.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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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 244 · printed citation: Knox · subject: GARDEN—EDEN—GETHSEMANE
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