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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What is true knowledge? is it with keen eye

Of lucre’s sons to thread the mazy way?

Is it of civil rights, and royal sway,

And wealth political, the depth to try?

Is it to delve the earth, to soar the sky?

To marshal nations, tribes in just array;

To mix, and analyze, and mete, and weigh

Her elements, and all her powers descry?

These things, who will may know them, if to know

Breed not vain glory; but, o’er all, to scan