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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Blood has a voice to pierce the skies;

Revenge! the blood of Abel cries;

But the dear stream when Christ was slain,

Speaks peace aloud from every vein.

Watts.

Adjacent rose a myrtle-planted mound,

Whose spiry top a granite fragment crowned.

Tinctured with many-coloured moss the stone,

Rich as a cloud of summer-evening shone,

Amid encircling verdure that arrayed