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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And cries, amid his grief untold,

“I would not live alway.”

William Knox.

He passeth calmly from that sunny morn,

Where all the buds of youth are newly born,

Through varying intervals of onward years,

Until the eve of his decline appears;

And while the shadows round his path descend,

And down the vale of age his footsteps tend,

Peace o’er his bosom sheds her soft control,