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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And pleasure, to voluptuous guilt denied,

May bloom ambrosial from affliction’s thorn.

George Bally.

All these fond pleasures, if fond things

Deserve so good a name,

Should not seduce a noble mind

To stain itself with shame.

The time shall come when all these same,

Which seem so rich with joy,

Like tyrants, shall torment thy mind,