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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With hideous ruin and combustion, down

To bottomless perdition; there to dwell

In adamantine chains and penal fire,

Who durst defy th’ Omnipotent to arms.

Milton.

Satan, thy power’s decline is nigh;

Like lightning flashing through the sky,

Thy demons hear the Heavenly Word,

And owning Him Creation’s Lord,

Confess, with fierce appalling yell—