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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Lives there a savage ruder than the slave?

Cruel as death, insatiate as the grave,

False as the winds that round his vessel blow,

Remorseless as the gulf that yawns below,

Is he who toils upon the wafting flood

A Christian broker in the trade of blood;

Boist’rous in speech, in action prompt and bold,

He buys, he sells—he steals, he kills for gold.

J. Montgomery.

Hast thou ever asked thyself