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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Traveller, as roaming over vales and steeps,

Thou hast, perchance, beheld in foliage fair

A willow bending o’er a brook—it weeps,

Leaf after leaf, into the stream, till bare

Are the best boughs, the lovliest and the brightest,

Oh! sigh, for well thou may’st, yet as thou sighest,

Think not ’tis o’er imaginary woe;

I tell thee, traveller, such is mortal man,

And so he hangs o’er fancied bliss, and so,

While life is verging to its shortest span,