<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=556591" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hymns For Ordination and Installation VII</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'On earth be peace!'-O God, that word<br>To our ears comes not, as it came,<br>When by Judea's shepherds heard<br>From opening skies and lips of flame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Yet 't is thy word, when mortal tongue<br>Makes it the burden of a hymn,<br>Not less than when, of old, it rung<br>From golden harps of cherubim.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>What though heaven's gates no more expand,<br>And heavenly hosts their hymning cease!<br>On earth thine humbler servants stand,<br>In humbler temples, 'preaching peace.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Peace to the passions, when they show<br>Resistance to thy wise control;<br>Peace to all fears, but those which go<br>In arms against a sinful soul.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Peace may thy servant preach, who now<br>Comes, as a herald of thy grace,<br>To lead thy people when they bow<br>In worship, in this holy place.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Beneath his care and labors, Lord,<br>O, grant thy vineyard large increase;<br>And may a crown, as his reward,<br>Be given him by the Prince of Peace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Pierpont">John Pierpont</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=556591" data-title="Hymns For Ordination and Installation VII de John Pierpont" data-description="'On earth be peace!'-O God, that word To our ears comes not, as it came, When by Judea's shepherds heard From opening skies and lips of flame. Yet 't is thy word, when mortal tongue Makes it the burden of a hymn, Not less than when, of old, it r..."></div> </div> </div>

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