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Whoe’er thou art, this truth take home,—and think Two spirits only for thy soul contend,— The good and bad; but now alone is grace Imparted; soon thy final sands will fall, And thou in moral nakedness shalt be To Devil or to Deity assign’d Through endless ages!—Oh, that truth immense, This mortal, immortality shall wear! The pulse of mind can never cease to play; By God awaken’d, it for ever throbs, Eternal as His own eternity! Above the angels, or below the fiends: To mount in glory, or in shame descend— Mankind are destined by resistless doom.
Whoe’er thou art, this truth take home,—and think Two spirits only for thy soul contend,— The good and bad; but now alone is grace Imparted; soon thy final sands will fall, And thou in moral nakedness shalt be To Devil or to Deity assign’d Through endless ages!—Oh, that truth immense, This mortal, immortality shall wear! The pulse of mind can never cease to play; By God awaken’d, it for ever throbs, Eternal as His own eternity! Above the angels, or below the fiends: To mount in glory, or in shame descend— Mankind are destined by resistless doom.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- R. Montgomery (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 320 · printed citation: R. Montgomery · subject: IMMORTALITY
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