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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No slaves on earth more welcome were than they;

But royalty, nobility, and state,

Are such a dead preponderating weight,

That endless bliss, how strange soe’er it seem,

In counterpoise flies up, and kicks the beam.

Cowper.

There’s not a leaf within the bower;

There’s not a bird upon the tree;

There’s not a dew-drop on the flower;

But leaves the impress Lord of Thee.