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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Eliza Cook.

Passions, indulged beyond a certain bound,

Lead to a precipice, and plunge in woe

The heedless agent.

George Bally.

PAST.

That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.—Ecclesiastes, iii. 15.

The past lives o’er again,

In its effects, and to the guilty spirit