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To hurry at thy mandate, matchless King! The orbs of night have cars of sapphire dyes; To reach Thee th’ eagle hath at least his wing, And nought have we except our sighs! May thy saints’ voice ascend and calm thy wrath, Terrestrial incense is the just man’s prayer; But pass we sinners, nought the sinner hath, Unto thy shrine, but tears to bear.
To hurry at thy mandate, matchless King! The orbs of night have cars of sapphire dyes; To reach Thee th’ eagle hath at least his wing, And nought have we except our sighs! May thy saints’ voice ascend and calm thy wrath, Terrestrial incense is the just man’s prayer; But pass we sinners, nought the sinner hath, Unto thy shrine, but tears to bear.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Lamartine (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 589 · printed citation: Lamartine · subject: TEARS
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