“Fade, fade, each earthly joy;
Jesus is mine!
Break every earthly tie;
Jesus is mine;
Dark is the wilderness;
Earth has no resting-place;
Jesus alone can bless;
Jesus is mine.”

—  Horatius Bonar

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 399.

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