"If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps, have been and are; If, never leaving Thee, we have no need Our wandering spirits back again to lead Into Thy presence, but continued there Like angels standing on the highest stair Of the Sapphire Throne: this were to pray indeed!"

Source : Richard Chenevix Trench (1838). “Sabbation: Honor Neale : and Other Poems”, p.168

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