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’Tis nothing thou hast given; then add thy tears For a long race of unrepenting years; ’Tis nothing yet, yet all thou hast to give; Then add those may-be years thou hast to live; Yet nothing still; then poor and naked come; Thy Father will receive his unthrift home, And thy blest Saviour’s blood discharge the mighty sum.
’Tis nothing thou hast given; then add thy tears For a long race of unrepenting years; ’Tis nothing yet, yet all thou hast to give; Then add those may-be years thou hast to live; Yet nothing still; then poor and naked come; Thy Father will receive his unthrift home, And thy blest Saviour’s blood discharge the mighty sum.
Approximate author period: c. 1666 AD · renaissance
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- John Dryden
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- Approximate author period: c. 1666 AD · renaissance
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 41 · printed citation: Dryden · subject: ATONEMENT
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