Quote#God & Faith
Yea, when mortality dissolves
Quote byAlice Cary · 1820–1871
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Reconciled" in A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: with some of their later poems (1875) edited by Mary Clemmer Ames, p. 182..
English (original)
Yea, when mortality dissolves, Shall I not meet thine hour unawed? My house eternal in the heavens Is lighted by the smile of God!
— Alice Cary
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