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Who spoke creation into birth, Arch’d the broad heavens, and spread the rolling earth; Who form’d a pathway for the obedient sun, And bade the seasons in their circles run; Who fill’d the air, the forest, and the flood, And gave man all for comfort, or for good.
Who spoke creation into birth, Arch’d the broad heavens, and spread the rolling earth; Who form’d a pathway for the obedient sun, And bade the seasons in their circles run; Who fill’d the air, the forest, and the flood, And gave man all for comfort, or for good.
Approximate author period: c. 1833 AD · industrial
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- Charles Sprague
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- Approximate author period: c. 1833 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 254 · printed citation: Charles Sprague · subject: GOD
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