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What are these arrayed in white, Brighter than the noonday sun? Foremost of the sons of light, Nearest the eternal throne? These are they that bore the cross, Nobly for their master stood; Sufferers in his righteous cause, Followers of the dying God. Out of great distress they came, Wash’d their robes by faith below In the blood of yonder Lamb, Blood that washes white as snow, Therefore are they next the throne, Serve their Maker day and night: God resides among his own, God doth in his saints delight.
What are these arrayed in white, Brighter than the noonday sun? Foremost of the sons of light, Nearest the eternal throne? These are they that bore the cross, Nobly for their master stood; Sufferers in his righteous cause, Followers of the dying God. Out of great distress they came, Wash’d their robes by faith below In the blood of yonder Lamb, Blood that washes white as snow, Therefore are they next the throne, Serve their Maker day and night: God resides among his own, God doth in his saints delight.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- De Courcy (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 516 · printed citation: De Courcy · subject: SAINT
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