“If I ask Him to receive me,
Will He say me nay?
Not till earth, and not till heaven
Pass away.”

—  Stephen the Hymnographer

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 153.

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