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There is a light on the hills, and the valley is past! Ascend, happy pilgrim! thy labours are o’er! The sunshine of Heaven around thee is cast, And thy weak, doubting footsteps can falter no more. On, pilgrim! that hill richly circled with rays Is Zion! Lo, there is the “city of saints!” And the beauties, the glories, that region displays, Inspiration’s own language imperfectly paints.
There is a light on the hills, and the valley is past! Ascend, happy pilgrim! thy labours are o’er! The sunshine of Heaven around thee is cast, And thy weak, doubting footsteps can falter no more. On, pilgrim! that hill richly circled with rays Is Zion! Lo, there is the “city of saints!” And the beauties, the glories, that region displays, Inspiration’s own language imperfectly paints.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Mrs. Opie (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 443 · printed citation: Mrs. Opie · subject: PILGRIMAGE
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