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Yet know, vain sceptics, know the Almighty mind, Who breathed on man a portion of His fire, Bade his free soul, by earth nor time confined, To Heaven, to immortality aspire. Nor shall the pile of hope His mercy reared, By vain philosophy be e’er destroyed: Eternity, by all or wished or feared, Shall be, by all, or suffered, or enjoyed.
Yet know, vain sceptics, know the Almighty mind, Who breathed on man a portion of His fire, Bade his free soul, by earth nor time confined, To Heaven, to immortality aspire. Nor shall the pile of hope His mercy reared, By vain philosophy be e’er destroyed: Eternity, by all or wished or feared, Shall be, by all, or suffered, or enjoyed.
Approximate author period: c. 1761 AD · early modern
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- William Mason
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- Approximate author period: c. 1761 AD · early modern
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 320 · printed citation: William Mason · subject: IMMORTALITY
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