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The soul’s rough file that smoothness does impart; The hammer that does break the stony heart! The worm that never dies! the “thorn within,” That pricks and pains! the whip and scourge of sin! The voice of God in man! that without rest Does softly cry within a troubled breast— “To all temptations is that soul set free That makes not to itself a curb of me.”
The soul’s rough file that smoothness does impart; The hammer that does break the stony heart! The worm that never dies! the “thorn within,” That pricks and pains! the whip and scourge of sin! The voice of God in man! that without rest Does softly cry within a troubled breast— “To all temptations is that soul set free That makes not to itself a curb of me.”
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Sir E. Sherburne (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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Page 140 · printed citation: Sir E. Sherburne · subject: CONSCIENCE
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