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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How short our correspondence with the sun!

And while it lasts, Inglorious! Our best deeds,

How wanting in their weight! our highest joys,

Small cordials to support us in our pain,

And give us strength to suffer. But how great

To mingle interests, converse, amities,

With all the sons of reason, scatter’d wide

Through habitable space, wherever born,

Howe’er endowed! To live free citizens

Of universal nature! To lay hold