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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O Thou Eternal One! whose presence bright

All space doth occupy, all motion guide,

Unchanged through time’s all-devastating flight,

Thou only God!

From the Russian.

PARADISE.

And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto Thee, To-day shalt thou be with me in Paradise.—Luke, xxiii. 43.

To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God.—Revelation, ii. 7.

So on he fares, and to the border comes