DELIGHT.
Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desire of thine heart.—Psalm xxxvii. 4.
Then I was by him, as one brought up with him; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.—Proverbs, viii. 30, 31.
Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.—Proverbs, xxix. 17.
O voice! once heard
Delightfully, increase and multiply;
Now death to him.
Milton.
Holy and reverend is the name
Of our Eternal King:
Thrice holy Lord! the angels cry;
Thrice holy let us sing.
Holy is He in all His works,
And truth is His delight!
But sinners and their wicked ways,
Shall perish from His sight.
Needham.
And was the day of my delight
As pure and perfect as I say?
We know the very Lord of Day
Is dash’d with wandering isles of night.
If all was good and fair we met,
This earth had been a paradise;
It never look’d to human eyes
Since Adam left his garden yet.
Tennyson.
Amid a round of vain delights he lived,
And took his fill of pleasure; never thought
That life had higher objects, nobler aims
Than just to eat, and drink, and pass away
The precious hours in revelry and mirth.
Born to a priceless heritage, he went
Down to his grave, and knew it not, and all
The everlasting pleasures and delights
Of heaven he forfeited—great loss was his!
Egone.