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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HEAVEN'S MAGINIFICENCE, by WILLIAM AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG Poet's Biography First Line: Since o'er thy footstool here below Last Line: And robe me for that world of light. | |||
SINCE o'er thy footstool here below Such radiant gems are strown, Oh, what magnificence must glow, My God, about thy throne! So brilliant here these drops of light, There the full ocean rolls, how bright! If night's blue curtain of the sky, With thousand stars inwrought, Hung like a royal canopy With glittering diamonds fraught, Be, Lord, thy temple's outer veil, What splendor at the shrine must dwell! The dazzling sun at noontide hour, Forth from his flaming vase Flinging o'er earth the golden shower Till vale and mountain blaze, But shows, O Lord, one beam of thine: What, then, the day where thou dost shine! Ah, how shall these dim eyes endure That noon of living rays! Or how my spirit, so impure, Upon thy brightness gaze! Anoint, O Lord, anoint my sight, And robe me for that world of light. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BEAST OF BURDEN by MARIANNE MOORE SAMSON AGONISTES by JOHN MILTON WINTER, FR. LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE TO THE QUEEN by ALFRED TENNYSON TO THE AUTHOR OF TEUCHSA GRONDIE by LEVI BISHOP THE VILLAGE WELL by ALEXANDER BROWN ROBIN'S COME by WILLIAM WARREN CALDWELL |
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