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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While youth and age a listening ear inclined,

To learn the way the pearl of price to find.

Elizabeth Bogart.

PREPARATION.

The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord.—Proverbs, xvi. 1.

For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.—Isaiah, lxiv. 4.

Prepare to meet thy God.—Amos, iv. 12.

Blaspheme not Heaven with rash, impatient speech,

Nor deem, at thine own hour, its rest to reach,