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The moon is up! How calm and slow She wheels above the hill; The weary winds forget to blow, And all the world lies still. The way-worn travellers, with delight, The rising brightness see, Revealing all the paths and plains, And gilding every tree. It glistens where the hurrying stream Its little ripple leaves; It falls upon the forest shade, And sparkles on the leaves. So once, on Judah’s evening bills, The heavenly lustre spread; The gospel sounded from the blaze, And shepherds gazed with dread. And still that light upon the world Its guiding splendour throws; Bright in the opening hours of life, But brighter at the close. The waning moon in time shall fail To walk the midnight skies, But God hath kindled this bright light With fire that never dies.
The moon is up! How calm and slow She wheels above the hill; The weary winds forget to blow, And all the world lies still. The way-worn travellers, with delight, The rising brightness see, Revealing all the paths and plains, And gilding every tree. It glistens where the hurrying stream Its little ripple leaves; It falls upon the forest shade, And sparkles on the leaves. So once, on Judah’s evening bills, The heavenly lustre spread; The gospel sounded from the blaze, And shepherds gazed with dread. And still that light upon the world Its guiding splendour throws; Bright in the opening hours of life, But brighter at the close. The waning moon in time shall fail To walk the midnight skies, But God hath kindled this bright light With fire that never dies.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- W. B. O. Peabody (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 260 · printed citation: W. B. O. Peabody · subject: GOSPEL
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