A memorial volume of sacred poetry by the late Sir John Bowring. To which is prefixed, a memoir of the author, by Lady Bowring |
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Heaven the Christian's Home.
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Heaven the Christian's Home.
On light beams flowing from above
Man's course of mortal being runs;
And with the loadstone of His love
The Eternal Sire attracts His sons.
Man's course of mortal being runs;
And with the loadstone of His love
The Eternal Sire attracts His sons.
What an entrancing sight for him—
The enraptured prophet—when his eye
Saw Cherubim and Seraphim
Descending from their native sky!
The enraptured prophet—when his eye
Saw Cherubim and Seraphim
Descending from their native sky!
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Ten thousand indications given
Console us in our life's career;
They link us more and more to heaven,
And will at last conduct us there.
Console us in our life's career;
They link us more and more to heaven,
And will at last conduct us there.
The working of celestial love
In this bright consummation lies;
It brings down angels from above,
It raises mortals to the skies.
In this bright consummation lies;
It brings down angels from above,
It raises mortals to the skies.
Howe'er on earth we rove or roam,
From heaven we came, to heaven we tend;
Heaven is our final happy home,
Where joys begin and sorrows end.
From heaven we came, to heaven we tend;
Heaven is our final happy home,
Where joys begin and sorrows end.
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