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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May that blest Spirit, Lord, impart

Submission to Thy will.

Bishop Heber.

SILENCE.

Unto Thee will I cry, O Lord, my rock; be not silent to me: lest if Thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down to the pit.—Psalm xxviii. 1.

The Lord is in His holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before Him.—Habakkuk, ii. 20.

Be silent, O all flesh, before the Lord.—Zechariah, ii. 13.

The silence, often, of pure innocence,

Persuades when speaking fails.