91. Samaria
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O RAIL not at our kindred in the North, |
| Albeit Samaria finds her likeness there; |
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A self-form'd Priesthood, and the Church cast forth |
| To the chill
mountain air. |
What, though their fathers sinned, and lost the grace |
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Which seals the Holy Apostolic Line?
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| Christ's love o'erflows the bounds his Prophets trace |
| In His reveal'd
design. |
Israel had Seers; to them the Word is nigh; |
| Shall not that Word run forth, and gladness
give |
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To many a Shunammite, till in His eye |
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The full Seven-thousand live?
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Off Sardinia.
June 17, 1833.
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