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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Their streaming hearts poured freely when they died;

Those truths which neither use nor years impair,

Invite thee, woo thee, to the bliss they share.

Cowper.

In vain the Roman lord

Waved the relentless sword,

And spread the terrors of the circling flame;

In vain the heathen sought,

If chance some lurking spot,

Might mar the lustre of the Christian name: