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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Selected from the kingdoms of the earth

To be His chosen race, ordained to spread

His glory through remotest realms, and teach

The Gentile world Jehovah’s awful name.

William Hodson.

That people once

So famed, whom God Himself vouchsafed to call

His chosen race, and with a guardian hand

Deigned to protect, from Palestine exiled,

Are doomed to wander; although scattered thus