# Eliza R. Snow on Theosis

> For a wise and glorious purpose  Thou hast placed me here on earth  And withheld the recollection  Of my former friends and birth;  Yet ofttimes a secret something  Whispered, “You’re a stranger here,”  And I felt that I had wandered  From a more exalted sphere.

— Eliza R. Snow


For a wise and glorious purpose
Thou hast placed me here on earth
And withheld the recollection
Of my former friends and birth;
Yet ofttimes a secret something
Whispered, “You’re a stranger here,”
And I felt that I had wandered
From a more exalted sphere.

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