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Through Faith on earth, man holds a life sublime, And in the past and future, as he lists, Expatiates, and confers with every clime. Through faith he knows whereby the frame subsists, Of the expanded universe, by whom Created, and whereto it yet exists; A stranger and a pilgrim till the tomb Opens the way to the celestial land, Where God prepares a city, as a womb. So hopeful o’er the grave the faithful stand, Wherein their brethren in the dust repose, Grasped in the Father’s Omnipresent hand.
Through Faith on earth, man holds a life sublime, And in the past and future, as he lists, Expatiates, and confers with every clime. Through faith he knows whereby the frame subsists, Of the expanded universe, by whom Created, and whereto it yet exists; A stranger and a pilgrim till the tomb Opens the way to the celestial land, Where God prepares a city, as a womb. So hopeful o’er the grave the faithful stand, Wherein their brethren in the dust repose, Grasped in the Father’s Omnipresent hand.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- J. A. Heraud (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 210 · printed citation: J. A. Heraud · subject: FAITH
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