“Hark! Hark! my soul, angelic songs are swelling
O’er earth’s green fields and ocean’s wave-beat shore;
How sweet the truth those blessed strains are telling
Of that new life when sin shall be no more.”

— Frederick William Faber

The Pilgrims of the Night.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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British hymn writer and theologian 1814–1863

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