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 Thou refuse that mourner’s plea?

Does not Thy word still fix’d remain,

That none shall seek Thy face in vain?

Cowper.

We mourn for those who toil,

The slave who ploughs the main,

Or him who hopeless tills the soil

Beneath the stripe and chain;

For those who in the world’s hard race,

O’erwearied and unblest,