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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Samuel Hayes.

LEAF.

We all do fade as a leaf.—Isaiah, lxiv. 6.

See the leaves around us falling

Dry and withered to the ground;

Thus to thoughtless mortals calling,

In a sad and solemn sound:

Sons of Adam, once in Eden,

Blighted when like us he fell,