Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GOD IS OUR HOPE AND STRENGTH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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First Line: Tempest and terror below
Last Line: Till we gaze on thee face unto face, and respond to thee love unto love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Jesus Christ


TEMPEST and terror below; but Christ the Almighty above.
Tho' the depth of the deep overflow, tho' fire run along on the ground,
Tho' all billows and flames make a noise, -- and where is an Ark for the dove? -
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Tho' sorrows rejoice against joys, and death and destruction abound:
Yet Jesus abolisheth death, and Jesus Who loves us we love;
His dead are renewed with a breath, His lost are the sought and the found.
Thy wanderers call and recall, Thy dead men lift out of the ground;
O Jesus, Who lovest us all, stoop low from Thy Glory above:
Where sin hath abounded make grace to abound and to superabound,
Till we gaze on Thee face unto Face, and respond to Thee love unto Love.





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