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SONNET ON THE FEMALE CHARACTERS OF SCRIPTURE: INVOCATION CONTINUED by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS

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First Line: AND COME, YE FAITHFUL! ROUND MESSIAH SEEN
Last Line: SINK TO THE GENTLENESS OF INFANT SLEEP.
Subject(s): WOMEN IN THE BIBLE;

AND come, ye faithful! round Messiah seen,
With a soft harmony of tears and light
Streaming through all your spiritual mien --
As in calm clouds of pearly stillness bright,
Showers weave with sunshine, and transpierce their slight
Ethereal cradle. From @3your@1 heart subdued
All haughty dreams of power had winged their flight,
And left high place for martyr fortitude,
True faith, long-suffering love. Come to me, come!
And as the seas, beneath your Master's tread,
Fell into crystal smoothness, round Him spread
Like the clear pavement of His heavenly home;
So, in your presence, let the soul's great deep
Sink to the gentleness of infant sleep.



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