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When the pure soul is from the body flown No more shall Night’s alternate reign be known The sun no more shall rolling light bestow But from the Almighty streams of glory flow Oh may some nobler thought my soul employ Than empty transient sublunary joy

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When the pure soul is from the body flown No more shall Night’s alternate reign be known The sun no more shall rolling light bestow But from the Almighty streams of glory flow Oh may some nobler thought my soul employ Than empty transient sublunary joy
Listed on Page Number
293
Sampler Worked By
Elizabeth Barrett
Date of Sampler
1814
Place Sampler Made
Doddington (possibly England)
Sampler Listed on Page
125
Author/Publication/Country/Date
Gay, John. Poems on Several Occasions, Dublin: S.Powell, 1730. vol. 2, pg. 264.
Notes
https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_poems-on-several-occasio_gay-john_1730_2/page/264/mode/1up?q=night%27s