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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W. C. Bryant.

Give credit to thy mortal brother’s heart

For all the good that in thine own hath part.

Mrs. Norton.

Never despair of goodness. Men are bad,

But have been worse. The badness shall die out,

The goodness, like the thistle-down, shall float,

Bearing a germ beneath its tiny car—

A germ predestined to become a tree,

To fall on fruitful soil, and on its boughs