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Description
Poem for Margaret Kenyon about religion in old age
Date
Summer 9-8-1824
Keywords
Religion, Jehovah
Recommended Citation
Chase, Philander, "Letter to Margaret Kenyon" (1824). Philander Chase Letters. 501.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/chase_letters/501
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Religion in [our] old age like the evening Sun, [remits] [perhaps] its splendour in some degree, but retains its magnitude - We can look at it more steadily”
Bishop Chase
See the evening Sun Descending,
Sinking to his golden bed,
Lovelier in departing radiance
Mild and chastened glory shed!
Still the same his size & splendor,
As at [noon] tide riding high,
Tho’ to us more faintly shining
We behold with [stradin] eye.
So Religious purer lustre
Shines with rays of blessedness,
On the hoary [Lead] “so glorious”
When in “ways of righteousness.”
Still from strength [to] strength proceeding,
To the only source of Light
In Faith, Hope, Charity, Victorious,
Gazing on the [people] [of] [bright].
Time at length shall land them safely
On the coast Eternity,
Where their Sun, The Lord [Jehovah]
Shines [he] ever gloriously.
Margaret Kenyon
Sept. [8]
1824