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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Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth,

A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud

Enveloping the earth,

And from the soul itself must there be sent

A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth,

Of all sweet sounds the life and element.

Coleridge.

The spirit leaves the body’s wondrous frame,

That frame itself a world of strength and skill;

The nobler inmate new abodes will claim,