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To Jesus, the crown of my hope, My soul is in haste to be gone; Oh, bear me, ye cherubim, up, And waft me away to His throne! My Saviour, whom absent, I love, Whom not having seen, I adore; Whose name is exalted above All glory, dominion, and pow’r.

To Jesus, the crown of my hope, My soul is in haste to be gone; Oh, bear me, ye cherubim, up, And waft me away to His throne! My Saviour, whom absent, I love, Whom not having seen, I adore; Whose name is exalted above All glory, dominion, and pow’r.

Approximate author period: c. 1765 AD · early modern

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William Cowper
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Approximate author period: c. 1765 AD · early modern
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A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)

Page 8 · printed citation: Cowper · subject: ABSENCE

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