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The soul which doth with God unite, Those gaieties how doth she slight, Which o’er opinion sway! Like sacred virgin wax, which shines On altars or on Martyrs’ shrines, How doth she burn away! How violent are her throes till she From envious earth deliver’d be, Which doth her flight restrain! How doth she doat on whips and racks, On fires, and the so dreaded axe, And every murdering pain! How soon she leaves the pride of wealth, The flatteries of youth and health, And fame’s more precious breath; And every gaudy circumstance That doth the pomp of life advance At the approach of death.
The soul which doth with God unite, Those gaieties how doth she slight, Which o’er opinion sway! Like sacred virgin wax, which shines On altars or on Martyrs’ shrines, How doth she burn away! How violent are her throes till she From envious earth deliver’d be, Which doth her flight restrain! How doth she doat on whips and racks, On fires, and the so dreaded axe, And every murdering pain! How soon she leaves the pride of wealth, The flatteries of youth and health, And fame’s more precious breath; And every gaudy circumstance That doth the pomp of life advance At the approach of death.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- W. Habington (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 560 · printed citation: W. Habington · subject: SOUL
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