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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The Virgin-born, to bruise the Serpent’s head,

The Paschal Lamb, to patient slaughter led,

The King of kings, to crush the gates of Hell,

Messiah, Shiloh, Jah, Emmanuel!

See, o’er His head, soft sinking from above,

With hovering radiance hangs the mystic Dove:

Dread from the cloud Jehovah’s voice is known,

“This is my Son, my own, my well-loved Son!”

C. H. Johnson.