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Your voiceless lips, O flowers, are living preachers, Each cup a pulpit, every leaf a book, Supplying to my fancy numerous teachers, From loneliest nook. Were I, O God, in churchless lands remaining, Far from the voice of teachers and divines, My soul would find in flowers of Thy ordaining, Priests, sermons, shrines.
Your voiceless lips, O flowers, are living preachers, Each cup a pulpit, every leaf a book, Supplying to my fancy numerous teachers, From loneliest nook. Were I, O God, in churchless lands remaining, Far from the voice of teachers and divines, My soul would find in flowers of Thy ordaining, Priests, sermons, shrines.
Approximate author period: c. 1814 AD · industrial
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- Horace Smith
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- Approximate author period: c. 1814 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 588 · printed citation: Horace Smith · subject: TEACHING
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