 Whose fire was kindled at the prophets' lamp, The time of rest, the promised Sabbath comes. Six thousand years of sorrow have well nigh Fulfilled their tardy and disastrous course Over a sinful world. And what remains Of this tempestuous state of human...  Poems - Page 178by William Cowper - 1819Full view - About this book
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...comes. Six thousand years of sorrow have well-nigh Fulfill'd their tardy and disastrous course 735 Over a sinful world ; and what remains Of this tempestuous...: For He, whose car the winds are, and the clouds 740 The dust that waits upon his sultry march, , When sin hath mov'd him, and his wrath is hot, Shall... | |
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...The time of rest, the promised sabbath, comes. Six thousand years of sorrow have well-nigh Fulfilled their tardy and disastrous course Over a sinful world...dust, that waits upon his sultry march, When sin hath moved him, and his wrath is hot, Shall visit earth in mercy ; shall descend Propitious in his chariot... | |
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...time of rest, the promised sabbath, comea. Sis thousand -years of sorrow have qpU nigh . ; . Fulfilled their tardy and disastrous course Over a sinful world...to rest: For He, whose car the winds are, and the cloud* The dust, that waits upen his sultry march, When sin hath moved him, and his wrath is hot, Shall... | |
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...The time of rest, the promis'd sahhath, comes. ' Six thousand years of sorrow have weUnigh Fulfill'd their tardy and disastrous course ,.., ,.| Over a...and what remains Of this tempestuous state of human thing* .„ (| .^ Is merely as the working of a sea Before a calm, that rocks itself to rest : For... | |
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...The time of rest, the promis'd sabbath, comes. Six thousand years of sorrow have wellnigh Fulfill'd their tardy and disastrous course Over a sinful world...clouds The dust, that waits upon his sultry march, When sill hath moVd him, and his wrath is hot, Shall visit Earth in mercy ; shall descend Propitious in... | |
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...The time of rest, the promis'd sabbath, comes. Six thousand years of sorrow have wellnigh Fulfill'd their tardy and disastrous course Over a sinful world...clouds The dust, that waits upon his sultry march, 741 When sin hath mov'd him, and his wrath is hot, Shall visit Earth in mercy; shall descend Propitious... | |
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...The time of rest, the promis'd sabbath, comes. Six thousand years of sorrow have well nigh Fulfill'd their tardy and disastrous course Over a sinful world...: For HE, whose car the winds are, and the clouds Th« dust that waits upon the sultry march, When sin hath mov'd him, and his wrath is hot, Shall visit... | |
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...tardy and disastrons conrse Over a sinfnl world ; and what remaius Of this tempestnons state of hnman things Is merely as the working of a sea Before a...to rest: For He, whose car the winds are, and the clonds The dnst, that waits npon his snltry march, When sin hath mov'd him, and his wrath is hot, Shall... | |
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...The time ot rest, the promis'd sabbath comes. Six thousand years of sorrow have well nigh Fulfilled their tardy and disastrous course Over a sinful world ; and what remains Of this tempestuous elate of human things, Is merely as the working of a sea Before a calm, that rocks itself to rest :... | |
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...The time of rest, the promis'd sabbath, comes. Six thousand years of sorrow have well nigh Fulfill'd their tardy and disastrous course Over a sinful world...the winds are, and the clouds The dust, that. waits npon his sultry march, When sin hath mov'd him, and his wrath is hot. Shall visit Earth in mercy ;... | |
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