BRIGHTNESS.
Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.—II. Samuel, xxii. 13.
God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. And his brightness was as the light.—Habakkuk, iii. 3, 4.
Then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming.—II. Thessalonians, ii. 8.
Impotent words, weak lines, that strive in vain,
In vain, alas! to tell so heavenly sight!
So heavenly sight as none can greater feign,
Feign what he can, that seems of greatest might:
Could any yet compare with Infinite?
Infinite sure these joys; my words but light:
Light is the palace where she dwells—O then how bright!
Giles Fletcher.
Through a cloud,
Drawn round about thee like a radiant shrine,
Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear.
Milton.
Hope elevates, and joy
Brightens his crest.
Milton.
High in yonder realms of light,
Far above these lower skies,
Fair and exquisitely bright,
Heaven’s unfading mansions rise.
Built of pure and massy gold,
Strong and durable are they;
Deck’d with gems of worth untold,
Subjected to no decay.
Raffles.
My Father’s house on high,
Home of my soul, how near
At times, to faith’s foreseeing eye,
Thy golden gates appear!
Ah! then my spirit faints
To reach the land I love,
The bright inheritance of saints,
Jerusalem above.
J. Montgomery.