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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No more, that lights them to their purposes.

They wander loose about; they nothing see,

Themselves except, and creatures like themselves,

Short-lived, short-sighted, impotent to save.

So on their dissolute spirits, soon or late,

Destruction cometh, like an armed man,

Or like a dream of murder in the night,

Withering their mortal faculties, and breaking

The bones of all their pride.

Charles Lamb.