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THE ADVENT

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 21, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 32, No. 5.

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THE ADVENT.

By Young

AND is there a last day?—and must there come A sure, a fix'd inexorable doom? Ambition! swell, and, thy proud sails to show, Take all the winds that vanity can blow. Wealth! a golden mountain blazing stand, And reach an India forth in either hand; Spread all thy purple clusters, tempting Vine! And thou, more dreaded foe, bright Beauty! shine. Shine all, in all your charms together rise, That all, in all your charms, I may despise, While I mount upward on a strong desire, Borne, like Elijah, in a car of fire. Religion! O thou cherub, heavenly bright! O joys unmix'd and fathomless delight! Thou, art of all; nor find I in the whole Creation, aught but God and my own soul.—Young.