A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations / Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.

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LAND.

And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt.

And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land, and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.—Exodus, iii. 7, 8.

He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread.—Proverbs, xii. 11.

Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is vary far off.—Isaiah, xxxiii. 17.

Beautiful Landscape! I could look on thee

For hours, unmindful of the storm and strife,

And mingled murmurs of tumultuous life.

Here, all is still as fair—the stream, the tree,

The wood, the sunshine on the bank; no tear—

No thought of time’s swift wing, or closing night,

Which comes to steal away the long sweet light,—

No sighs of sad humanity are here.

Here is no tint of mortal change—the day,—

Beneath whose light the dog and peasant boy

Gambol, with look, and almost bark, of joy—

Still seems, though centuries have passed, to stay;

Then gaze again, that shadow’d scenes may teach

Lessons of peace and love, beyond all speech.

Bowles.

There is a land of pure delight,

Where saints immortal reign;

Infinite day excludes the night,

And pleasures banish pain.

There everlasting spring abides,

And never withering flowers;

Death like a narrow sea divides

This heavenly land from ours.

Dr. Watts.

Yes, far beyond the clouds outspread,

Where soaring fancy oft hath been,

There is a land where Thou hast said

The pure in heart shall enter in;

They dream no more of grief and care,

For Thou, the God of Peace, art there.

Mrs. Welby.