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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Flushes the signal-light for prayer;

Come with the earliest beams that burst

From God’s bright throne of glory there;

Come, kneel to Him who through the night

Hath watched above thy sleeping soul;

To Him whose mercies, like His light,

Are shed abroad from pole to pole.

Charles F. Hoffman.

Then moved upon the waveless deep

The quickening Spirit of the Lord;