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.

by Unknown

Of all the living crowds around us pressing,

May, like the Eternal Father, give his son

To be humanity’s perpetual blessing.

Mrs. F. H. Cooke.

PASSIONS.

We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from those vanities unto the living God.—Acts, xiv. 15.

What profits us, that we from heaven derive

A soul immortal, and with looks erect

Survey the stars, if, like the brutal kind