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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Have left me naked to mine enemies.

Shakspere.

To tell you truly what I wish to be,

And never would be other, if I could,

But in the comfort of the heaven’s decree

In soul and body that I ever should—

Though in the world, not to the world to live,

But to my God my service wholly give.

This would I be, and would none other be,

But a religious servant of my God;