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What though my body run to dust? Faith cleaves unto it, counting every grain, With an exact and most particular trust, Reserving all for flesh again.
What though my body run to dust? Faith cleaves unto it, counting every grain, With an exact and most particular trust, Reserving all for flesh again.
Approximate author period: c. 1612 AD · renaissance
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- George Herbert
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- Approximate author period: c. 1612 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1593–1632)
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 498 · printed citation: George Herbert · subject: RESURRECTION—RISING
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