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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The first up-tracing from the dreary void,

The chain of causes and effects to Him,

The world-producing Essence, who alone

Possesses being; while the last receives

The whole magnificence of Heaven and earth,

And every beauty, delicate or bold,

Obvious or more remote, with livelier sense,

Diffusive painted on the rapid mind.

Thomson.

Survey the magnet’s sympathetic love,