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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MOUNTAIN.

As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.—Psalm cxxv. 2.

It shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.—Isaiah, ii. 2.

Once more, hoar mount! with thy sky-pointing peak,

Oft from whose feet the avalanche, unheard,

Shoots downward, glittering through the pine serene,

Into the depths of clouds that veil thy breast—

Thou too again stupendous mountain! thou

That, as I raise my head, awhile bow’d low

In adoration, upward from thy base

Slow-travelling with dim eyes suffused with tears,

Solemnly seemest, like a vapoury cloud,

To rise before me—rise, O ever rise,

Rise like a cloud of incense from the earth!

Thou kingly spirit throned amongst the hills.

Thou dread ambassador from earth to heaven,

Great Hierarch! tell thou the silent sky,

And tell the stars, and tell yon rising sun,

Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.

Coleridge.

Behold! the mountain of the Lord

In later days shall rise

On mountain tops above the hills,

And draw the wondering eyes:

To this the joyful nations round,

All tribes and tongues shall flow;

“Up to the hill of God,” they’ll say,

And to his house we’ll go.

The beam that shines from Zion’s hill,

Shall lighten every land;

The King who reigns in Salem’s towers,

Shall all the world command.

Logan.

Calvary’s mournful mountain climb;

There, adoring at His feet,

Mark that miracle of time,

God’s own sacrifice complete.

J. Montgomery.