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’Tis the angel Love, He, who for ever strives with Death, and yet Doth live! I see a form erect and motionless, Veiled with a cloud of darkness, that no eye Can pierce; that spectre form is Death, and there I see Love crushed and bleeding ’neath his feet: But still undying—still a conqueror—still A thing that Death may wound but cannot quell. In his warm blood a spirit still survives; In his bright eye a soul is living yet; In his undying heart, eternal life Throbs fixedly. Oh strife most beautiful! Thou crowned martyr! thou enduring Love! How beautiful thou art!
’Tis the angel Love, He, who for ever strives with Death, and yet Doth live! I see a form erect and motionless, Veiled with a cloud of darkness, that no eye Can pierce; that spectre form is Death, and there I see Love crushed and bleeding ’neath his feet: But still undying—still a conqueror—still A thing that Death may wound but cannot quell. In his warm blood a spirit still survives; In his bright eye a soul is living yet; In his undying heart, eternal life Throbs fixedly. Oh strife most beautiful! Thou crowned martyr! thou enduring Love! How beautiful thou art!
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Constantia L. Riddell (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 370 · printed citation: Constantia L. Riddell · subject: LOVE
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