The Altar or, Meditations in Verse On The Great Christian Sacrifice By The Author of "The Cathedral," [i.e. Isaac Williams] |
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“In that day shall the Lord of Hosts be for a crown of
glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of His people.”
O glorious, wonderful, and blessed days,
When Christ full oft at each accustomed scene
Walked in the Resurrection,—oft unseen,
And oft appearing to the adoring gaze;
At morn or eve, on travellers' pensive ways,
By rocky cove, or shore, or mount serene,
Or at the social board, would intervene,
In veil of flesh hiding His Godhead's blaze;
Unknown, yet well known; in such marvellous change,
Like the impalpable air, in stillness brought
Through close-barred doors, silent, swift, calm as thought,
Yet palpable: in vast and boundless range,
Setting the laws of matter all at nought,
And yet the same in transmutation strange.
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