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We grieve to think our eyes no more That form, those features loved, shall trace. But sweet it is from memory’s store To call each fondly-cherished grace, And fold them in the heart’s embrace. No bliss ’mid worldly crowds is bred, Like musing on the sainted dead. We grieve to see expired the race They ran, intent on works of love; But sweet to think no mixture base, With which their better nature strove, Shall rear their virtuous deeds above. Sin o’er their soul has lost its hold, And left them with their earthly mould.
We grieve to think our eyes no more That form, those features loved, shall trace. But sweet it is from memory’s store To call each fondly-cherished grace, And fold them in the heart’s embrace. No bliss ’mid worldly crowds is bred, Like musing on the sainted dead. We grieve to see expired the race They ran, intent on works of love; But sweet to think no mixture base, With which their better nature strove, Shall rear their virtuous deeds above. Sin o’er their soul has lost its hold, And left them with their earthly mould.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Bishop Mant (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 269 · printed citation: Bishop Mant · subject: GRIEF
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