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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The Great Creator did in vain dispense,

Or else the soul must live when gone from hence,

And if it live after the body fall,

What reason proves that it must die at all?

Thomas May.

Strong as the death it masters, is the hope

That onward looks to immortality:

Let the frame perish, so the soul survive,

Pure, spiritual, and loving. I believe

The grave exalts, not separates, the ties