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Well mayest thou tremble, Baptist; well thy cheek, Now flushed, now pale, thy labouring soul bespeak! ’Tis He, the Christ, by every bard foretold! Hear Him, ye nations, and ye Heavens behold! The Virgin-born, to bruise the Serpent’s head, The Paschal Lamb, to patient slaughter led, The King of kings, to crush the gates of Hell, Messiah, Shiloh, Jah, Emmanuel! See, o’er His head, soft sinking from above, With hovering radiance hangs the mystic Dove: Dread from the cloud Jehovah’s voice is known, “This is my Son, my own, my well-loved Son!”
Well mayest thou tremble, Baptist; well thy cheek, Now flushed, now pale, thy labouring soul bespeak! ’Tis He, the Christ, by every bard foretold! Hear Him, ye nations, and ye Heavens behold! The Virgin-born, to bruise the Serpent’s head, The Paschal Lamb, to patient slaughter led, The King of kings, to crush the gates of Hell, Messiah, Shiloh, Jah, Emmanuel! See, o’er His head, soft sinking from above, With hovering radiance hangs the mystic Dove: Dread from the cloud Jehovah’s voice is known, “This is my Son, my own, my well-loved Son!”
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- C. H. Johnson (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 51 · printed citation: C. H. Johnson · subject: BAPTIST, JOHN THE
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