“The deeds we do, the words we say,
Into still air they seem to fleet;
We count them ever past;
But they shall last —
In the dread judgment they
And we shall meet.”

—  John Keble

"Early Warnings," from Lyra Innocentium (1846).

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English churchman and poet, a leader of the Oxford Movement 1792–1866

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