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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Shakspere.

When winter fortunes cloud the brows

Of summer friends,—when eyes grow strange,—

When plighted faith forgets its vows,

When earth and all things in it change,—

O Lord, thy mercies fail me never—

Where once thou lovest, thou lovest for ever!

John Quarles.

Mercy is the highest reach of wit,