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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SEEING—SIGHT.

Thou God seest me.—Genesis, xvi. 13.

He that planted the ear, shall He not hear? He that formed the eye, shall He not see.—Psalm xciv. 9.

The light of the body is the eye: if, therefore, thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore, the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!—Matthew, vi. 22, 23.

First the two eyes that have the seeing power,

Stand as one watchman, spy, or sentinel,

Being placed aloft within the head’s high tower;

And though both see, yet both but one thing tell.

These mirrors take into their little space