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The Dwellings of the Just
I saw the dwellings of the Just,
No sun was in their sky;
Nor candle lit their rooms by night,
They saw without an eye.
No sun was in their sky;
Nor candle lit their rooms by night,
They saw without an eye.
They walked upright as fearing none,
Each step so true they trod;
They moved as those who had been taught
The perfect law of God.
Each step so true they trod;
They moved as those who had been taught
The perfect law of God.
All day they labored, yet at rest,
As in His sight who lives;
Who to teach one his rightful place,
And rightful portion gives.
As in His sight who lives;
Who to teach one his rightful place,
And rightful portion gives.
And shadowy night was blessed to them,
As His who gives the day;
And sweet the sleep it brought to these,
Whose joy was to obey.
As His who gives the day;
And sweet the sleep it brought to these,
Whose joy was to obey.
Poem No. 263; early 1840?
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