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Thou, Thou alone, with whom, enthroned on high, Sits co-essential wisdom, bad’st subside The valleys, and the mountains, from amidst Th’ o’erwhelming moisture, heave their brow sublime. The liquid troops, obedient to Thy voice, Fled to the appointed station. Thou a bound Hast set, they cannot pass; nor ever spread Their flowing mantle o’er th’ invested earth: Thou to the sea sayest,—Hitherto advance, And here thy proud licentious waves be stayed.
Thou, Thou alone, with whom, enthroned on high, Sits co-essential wisdom, bad’st subside The valleys, and the mountains, from amidst Th’ o’erwhelming moisture, heave their brow sublime. The liquid troops, obedient to Thy voice, Fled to the appointed station. Thou a bound Hast set, they cannot pass; nor ever spread Their flowing mantle o’er th’ invested earth: Thou to the sea sayest,—Hitherto advance, And here thy proud licentious waves be stayed.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- George Bally (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 659 · printed citation: George Bally · subject: WAVES
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