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Title: Elias : an epic of the ages
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Whitney, Orson F. (Orson Ferguson), 1855-1931
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Publisher: New York : The Knickerbocker Press
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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From Out the Dust 83 Wild oer the land roused Oceans anger swells;Fierce Flames prophetic tongue the final doom foretells. Three hours of stormful strife;—then all is still,Save for a Voice the universe might hear,Proclaiming what hath happed as Heavens high will,Dispensing pardon and dispelling fear,Drawing the righteous nearer and more near.Anon He lifts the curtain of the sky!The midday sun no more their minister;Greater hath risen; and glories multiplyAs angels in their gaze earthward and heavenward fly. He greets them as a shepherd greets his flock;Shows them His wounded side, His hands. His feet;Then builds His Church upon the stricken Rock,Where flow lifes healing waters, limpid, sweet.As infant innocence, that joys to meetIts great Original. With holy handHe ministers, bids death and hell retreat.And singles twelve from out the sainted bandTo sow with Gospel light the furrowed, tear-worn land. He bids them write His plain and precious word.What His own tongue hath told, and

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