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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Shakspere.

Sacred silence! thou that art

Floodgate of the deeper heart,

Offspring of a heavenly kind;

Frost o’ the mouth, and thaw o’ the mind,

Admiration’s readiest tongue,

Leave the desert shades, among

Reverend hermits’ hallow’d cells,

Where retired devotion dwells.

Flecknoe.