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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That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.—Matthew, viii. 17.

But chiefly, Thou,

Whom soft-eyed pity once led down from Heaven

To bleed for man, to teach him how to live,

And O, still harder lesson, how to die;

Disdain not Thou to smooth the restless bed

Of sickness and of pain.

Bishop Porteus.

When sickness to my fainting soul

Her fearful form display’d,