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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He will, for rest, to covert run,

And meet the wolf he strove to shun:

Thus wretched I, through wanton will,

Ran blind and headlong on in ill.

’Twas thus from sin to sin I flew,

And thus I might have perished too;

But mercy dropped the likeness here,

And showed and saved me from my fear,

While o’er the darkness of my mind

The sacred Spirit purely shined,