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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Young.

Pleasure is good, and man for pleasure made;

But pleasure full of glory as of joy;

Pleasure which neither blushes nor expires.

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Death treads in pleasure’s footsteps round the world,

When pleasure treads the paths which reason shuns.

Young.

Pleasure, admitted in undue degree,

Enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.