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The spirit leaves the body’s wondrous frame, That frame itself a world of strength and skill; The nobler inmate new abodes will claim, In every change to Thee aspiring still. Although from darkness born, to darkness fled, We know that light beyond surrounds the whole; The man survives, though the weird corpse be dead, And He who dooms the flesh, redeems the soul.
The spirit leaves the body’s wondrous frame, That frame itself a world of strength and skill; The nobler inmate new abodes will claim, In every change to Thee aspiring still. Although from darkness born, to darkness fled, We know that light beyond surrounds the whole; The man survives, though the weird corpse be dead, And He who dooms the flesh, redeems the soul.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- John Sterling (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 562 · printed citation: John Sterling · subject: SOUL
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