Even such is man, whose glory lends His life a blaze or two, and ends.
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Shine Son of glory, and my sinnes are gone Like twinkling Starres before the rising Sunne.
Permalink to quote #3 He that loves thee, He that keeps And guards thee, never slumbers, never sleeps.
Permalink to quote #5 The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that has no cross deserves no crown.
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