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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Parents first season us; the schoolmasters

Deliver us to laws; they send us bound

To rules of reason; holy messengers:

Pulpits and Sundays; sorrow, dogging sin;

Afflictions sorted; anguish of all sizes;

Fine nets and stratagems to catch us in;

Bibles laid open; millions of surprises;

Blessings beforehand; ties of gratefulness;

The sound of glory ringing in our ears;

Without, our shame; within, our consciences;