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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And God Himself is light!

Barton.

“Let there be light!” The Eternal spoke,

And from the abyss where darkness rode

The earliest dawn of nature broke,

And light around creation flowed:

The glad earth smiled to see the day,

The first-born day come blushing in;

The young day smiled to shed its ray