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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And laid his flesh to rest.

In God’s own arms he left the breath

That God’s own Spirit gave;

His was the noblest road to death,

And his the sweetest grave.

Watts.

God made his grave, to men unknown,

Where Moab’s rocks a vale infold;

And laid the aged seer alone,

To slumber while the world grows old.