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There, where the cross in hoary ruin nods, And weeping yews o’ershade the lettered stones; While midnight silence wraps these dark abodes, And soothes me, wand’ring o’er my kindred bones; Let kindled fancy view the glorious morn, When from the bursting graves the dust shall rise, All nature smiling; and, by angels borne, Messiah’s cross, far blazing o’er the skies.
There, where the cross in hoary ruin nods, And weeping yews o’ershade the lettered stones; While midnight silence wraps these dark abodes, And soothes me, wand’ring o’er my kindred bones; Let kindled fancy view the glorious morn, When from the bursting graves the dust shall rise, All nature smiling; and, by angels borne, Messiah’s cross, far blazing o’er the skies.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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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 159 · printed citation: Mickle · subject: CROSS—CRUCIFIXION
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