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Jimmy SwaggartJimmy Swaggart (born March 15, 1935) was a popular televangelist in the 1980s and a pioneer in that medium.He was born in Ferriday, Louisiana. While his own televangelism program was being taped in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Swaggart, on February 21, 1988 confessed that he was guilty of an unspecified sin and would be will be temporarily leaving the pulpit. The "unspecified sin" was an affair with a prostitute. My night.html">night shall be remembered for a star
Shall I not crown them with immortal praise
High secrets, and in darkness knelt to see
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An emperor: -- we have taught the world to die.
And the high cause of Love's magnificence,
Golden for ever, eagles, crying flames,
To dare the generations, burn, and blow
These I have loved:
Ringed with blue.html">blue lines; and feathery, faery dust;
Of friendly bread; and many-tasting food;
And radiant raindrops couching in cool flowers;
Dreaming of moths that drink them under the moon;
Smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss
Shining and free; blue-massing clouds; the keen
The benison of hot water; furs to touch;
The comfortable smell of friendly fingers,
About dead leaves and last year's ferns. . . .
And thousand other throng to me! Royal flames;
Holes in the ground; and voices that do sing;
Soon turned to peace; and the deep-panting train;
That browns and dwindles as the wave goes home;
Graveness of iron; moist black earthen mould;
And oaks; and brown horse-chestnuts, glossy-new;
All these have been my loves. And these shall pass,
Nor all my passion, all my prayers, have power
They'll play deserter, turn with the traitor breath,
And sacramented covenant to the dust.
And give what's left of love again, and make
But the best I've known,
About the winds of the world, and fades from brains
Nothing remains.
O dear my loves, O faithless, once again
Shall know, and later lovers, far-removed,
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