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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J. Montgomery.

Place me on some desert shore

Foot of man ne’er wandered o’er;

Lock me in a lonely cell

Beneath some prison citadel;

Still, here or there, within I find

My quiet kingdom of the mind;

Nay, ’mid the tempest fierce and dark,

Float me in peril’s frailest barque,

My quenchless soul could sit and think,