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Page 23
When bending from His native sky , The Lord of Life in mercy came , And laid his
bright effulgence by , To bear on earth a human names The song , by cherub
voices raised , Roll'd through the dark blue depths above , And Israel's
shepherds ...
When bending from His native sky , The Lord of Life in mercy came , And laid his
bright effulgence by , To bear on earth a human names The song , by cherub
voices raised , Roll'd through the dark blue depths above , And Israel's
shepherds ...
Page 128
Dwelt from eternity , dwelt then in thee , Bright effluence of bright essence
increate . Or , hear'st thou rather , pure ethereal stream , Whose fountain who
shall tell ? before the sun , Before the heav'ns thou wert , and at the voice Of God
, as with ...
Dwelt from eternity , dwelt then in thee , Bright effluence of bright essence
increate . Or , hear'st thou rather , pure ethereal stream , Whose fountain who
shall tell ? before the sun , Before the heav'ns thou wert , and at the voice Of God
, as with ...
Page 155
But what eye can pierce The vast immeasurable realms of space , O'er which
Messiah drives His flaming car To that bright region , where enthroned He sits ,
First - born of Heaven , to judge assembled worlds , Cloth'd in celestial radiance !
But what eye can pierce The vast immeasurable realms of space , O'er which
Messiah drives His flaming car To that bright region , where enthroned He sits ,
First - born of Heaven , to judge assembled worlds , Cloth'd in celestial radiance !
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So shall a gleam of heavenly light Dispel this mournful gloom , And cheer , with
rays serenely bright , My passage to the tomb . THE SEASONS . - By an
American Lady . I Love the rising grace , the varied charms , Which on the Earth's
...
So shall a gleam of heavenly light Dispel this mournful gloom , And cheer , with
rays serenely bright , My passage to the tomb . THE SEASONS . - By an
American Lady . I Love the rising grace , the varied charms , Which on the Earth's
...
Page 233
Beneath this mouldering canopy Once shone the bright and busy eye ; But start
not at the dismal void . If social love that eye employ'd , If with no lawless fire it
gleam'd , But through the dew of kindness beam'd ; The eye shall be for ever
bright ...
Beneath this mouldering canopy Once shone the bright and busy eye ; But start
not at the dismal void . If social love that eye employ'd , If with no lawless fire it
gleam'd , But through the dew of kindness beam'd ; The eye shall be for ever
bright ...
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| Title | Poems Divine and Moral |
| Author | John Bowdler |
| Compiled by | John Bowdler |
| Publisher | C. & J. Rivington, 1823 |
| Original from | University of California Irvine |
| Digitized | 5 Jan 2017 |
| Length | 254 pages |
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