Have borne along, desiring of their King—
Of whom thou art—those better things on earth,
Which He hath promised them in days of old,
Shall take the place of former things to pass—
With mourning, weeping, bitterness, and death—
Away for ever, as the first-born states
Of Heaven and earth and sea no more to be.[[154]]
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Fair Keeper of the rays shed by the Sun!
Whilst feeble mortals now deny thy power,