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To be an humble follower of Him, Who left the bliss of Heaven, to be for us A man on earth in spotless virtue living As man ne’er lived; such words of comfort speaking, To raise, and elevate, and cheer the heart, As man ne’er spake; and suffering poverty, Contempt, and wrong, and pain, and death itself, As man ne’er suffered.
To be an humble follower of Him, Who left the bliss of Heaven, to be for us A man on earth in spotless virtue living As man ne’er lived; such words of comfort speaking, To raise, and elevate, and cheer the heart, As man ne’er spake; and suffering poverty, Contempt, and wrong, and pain, and death itself, As man ne’er suffered.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Joanna Baillie (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 122 · printed citation: Joanna Baillie · subject: CHRISTIANITY
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