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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Bunyan.

Humility is the softening shadow before the statue of excellence,

And lieth lowly on the ground beloved and lovely as the violet:

Humility is the fair-haired maid that calleth worth her brother,

The gentle, silent nurse, that fostereth infant virtues:

As when the blind man is nigh unto a rose its sweetness is herald of its beauty,

So, when thou savourest humility, be sure thou art nigh unto merit.

Tupper.

When Mary chose the “better part,”