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Think’st thou to be concealed, thou little thought, That in the curtained chamber of the soul Dost wrap thyself so close, and dream to do A secret work? Look to the hues that roll O’er the changed brow—the moving lips behold— Linking thee unto speech—the feet that run Upon thy errands, and the deeds that stamp Thy lineage plain before the noon-day sun; Look to the pen that writes thy history down In those tremendous books that ne’er unclose Until the day of doom, and blush to see How vain thy trust in darkness to repose, Where all things tend to judgment. So beware, O, erring human heart! what thought thou lodgest there.
Think’st thou to be concealed, thou little thought, That in the curtained chamber of the soul Dost wrap thyself so close, and dream to do A secret work? Look to the hues that roll O’er the changed brow—the moving lips behold— Linking thee unto speech—the feet that run Upon thy errands, and the deeds that stamp Thy lineage plain before the noon-day sun; Look to the pen that writes thy history down In those tremendous books that ne’er unclose Until the day of doom, and blush to see How vain thy trust in darkness to repose, Where all things tend to judgment. So beware, O, erring human heart! what thought thou lodgest there.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Mrs. Sigourney (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 602 · printed citation: Mrs. Sigourney · subject: THOUGHT
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