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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Lilies that fester smell far worse then weeds;

And every glory that inclines to sin,

The same is treble by the opposite.

Old Play. (1597.)

Much have we sinned to our shame,

But spare us who our sins confess;

And for the glory of Thy name,

To our sick souls afford redress.

Drummond.

It is a shame, that man, that has the seeds