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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Of the expanded future, and behold

The flesh redeemed to its immortal prime.

J. A. Heraud.

Yet know, vain sceptics, know the Almighty mind,

Who breathed on man a portion of His fire,

Bade his free soul, by earth nor time confined,

To Heaven, to immortality aspire.

Nor shall the pile of hope His mercy reared,

By vain philosophy be e’er destroyed:

Eternity, by all or wished or feared,