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Author of being! life-sustaining king! Lo! want’s dependant eye from Thee implores The seasons, which provide nutritious stores; Give to her prayers the renovating spring, And summer’s heats all perfecting, that bring The fruits which autumn, from a thousand shores Selecteth provident! when earth adores Her God, and all her vales exultory sing. Without thy blessing the submissive steer Bends to the ploughman’s galling yoke in vain; Without thy blessing on the varied year, Can the swarth reaper grasp the golden grain? Without thy blessing all is blank and drear; With it the joys of Eden bloom again.
Author of being! life-sustaining king! Lo! want’s dependant eye from Thee implores The seasons, which provide nutritious stores; Give to her prayers the renovating spring, And summer’s heats all perfecting, that bring The fruits which autumn, from a thousand shores Selecteth provident! when earth adores Her God, and all her vales exultory sing. Without thy blessing the submissive steer Bends to the ploughman’s galling yoke in vain; Without thy blessing on the varied year, Can the swarth reaper grasp the golden grain? Without thy blessing all is blank and drear; With it the joys of Eden bloom again.
Approximate author period: c. 1810 AD · industrial
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- William Wordsworth
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- Approximate author period: c. 1810 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 75 · printed citation: Wordsworth · subject: BLESSING—BLESSEDNESS—BLESS
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