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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Smart.

When God came down from Heaven, the Living God,

What signs and wonders marked His stately way?

Brake out the winds in music where He trode?

Shone o’er the heavens a brighter, softer day?

The dumb began to speak, the blind to see,

And the lame leaped, and pain and darkness fled;

The mourner’s sunken eye grew bright with glee,

And from the tomb awoke the wondering dead.