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Some, she knew, looked upon Thompson almost as a saint, but others read in `` The Hound Of Heaven '' what they took to be the confessions of a great sinner, who, like Oscar Wilde, had -- as one pious writer later put it -- thrown himself `` on the swelling wave of every passion ''.
The " Hound of Heaven " is a 182-line poem written by English poet Francis Thompson ( 1859-1907 ).
Titled, A Pictorial Sequence Painted by R. H. Ives Gammell Based on The Hound of Heaven, it is considered Gammell's magnum opus.
* The Christian alternative rock band Daniel Amos wrote a song titled Hound of Heaven on their 1978 album Horrendous Disc that is based on the Thompson poem.
* Christian artist Michael Card wrote a song " Hound of Heaven ," basing the lyrics on parts of Thompson's poem.
* " The Hound of Heaven " is the title of the fifth chapter in Robert L. Short's 1965 book The Gospel According to Peanuts where he describes Snoopy as a " little Christ " carrying out " Christ's ambivalent work of humbling the exalted and exalting the humble.
* " The Hound of Heaven " was mentioned in the suicide note of George R. Price, a geneticist who pioneered the evolutionary theory of altruism and suicide ( among other things ), before becoming a committed Christian and giving away all his possessions to the poor.
* Canadian Poet Phyllis Webb references " The Hound of Heaven " in her poem " Poetics Against the Angel of Death.
* Paramhansa Yogananda, the great Indian spiritual master, included " The Hound of Heaven " in one of his two albums, " Songs of My Heart ".
* R. H. Ives Gammell: The Hound of Heaven by Elizabeth Ives Hunter
In their decision, which became known as " Brown II " the court delegated the task of carrying out school desegregation to district courts with orders that desegregation occur " with all deliberate speed ," a phrase traceable to Francis Thompson's poem, The Hound of Heaven.
In 2000 Norman sang " Hound of Heaven " on the Daniel Amos tribute album, When Worlds Collide: A Tribute to Daniel Amos.
Some of the songs from the album, like " Hound of Heaven " were being performed by the band in concert as early as 1977.
The covers sung by Norman were of his favorite Daniel Amos song – " Hound of Heaven ".
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His most famous poem The Hound of Heaven, describes the pursuit of the human soul by God.
::— Francis Thompson, The Hound of Heaven
* The Hound of Heaven and Other Poems ( 1978 )

Heaven and sources
A narrative history based mostly on previously published sources, Gregory Dowd writes that " Nester pays little attention to archival sources, sources in French, ethnography, and the past two decades of scholarship on Native American history " ( Dowd, War under Heaven, 283n9 ).
Historical novelist Mary Renault, in the preface to her biography of Alexander " Fire from Heaven ", discusses the various sources which she studied in preparation for her work, expressing considerable exasperation with Curtius who " had access to invaluable primary sources, now lost ", which in her opinion he misunderstood and garbled.
While a variety of modding communities came into existence after the game's release, most sources assert that the most popular remains Rise of Nations Heaven
There is apparently some disagreement in sources as to whether or not Shamsiel is a fallen angel ; he is still regarded as the ruler of the 4th Heaven and it has been said that he fought on the side of God during the War in Heaven according to some questionable sources.
Certain sources indicate that, created at the beginning of time, Israfel possesses four wings, and is so tall as to be able to reach from the earth to the pillars of Heaven.

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