Quote#Nature
This was the truest warrior
Quote byCecil Frances Alexander · 1818–1895
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Hymn: The Burial of Moses.
English (original)
This was the truest warrior That ever buckled sword; This the most gifted poet That ever breathed a word; And never earth’s philosopher Traced with his golden pen On the deathless page truths half so sage As he wrote down for men.
— Cecil Frances Alexander
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By Nebo’s lonely mountain, On this side Jordan’s wave, In a vale in the land of Moab, There lies a lonely grave.
O, lonely tomb in Moab's land, O, dark Bethpeor's hill, Speak to these curious hearts of ours, And teach them to be still! God hath His mysteries of grace — Ways that we cannot tell;
He gave us eyes to see them, And lips that we might tell How great is God Almighty, Who has made all things well.
The sunn must lend his goulden beames, Soft windes their breath, green trees their shade, Sweete fields their flowers, cleare springs their streams, Ere such another smyle bee made.
Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Why o'er the waves dost fly? O, rather, bird, with me Through the fair land rejoice!
