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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Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.—I. John, iv. 7.

Weak though we are, to love is no hard task,

And love for love is all that Heaven does ask.

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’Tis with our minds as with a fertile ground;

Wanting this love, they must with weeds abound;

Unruly passions, whose effects are worse

Than thorns and briars, springing from the curse.

Waller.

Legions of angels, which He might have used,