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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At that high warning start;

Conscience gives back th’ appalling tone;

’Tis echoed in the heart.

Keble.

If yet the Holy Spirit deigns to dwell

In earthly domes, ’tis not in those defiled

With pride, with fraud, with rapine, or with lust;

’Midst the rough foliage of the thorny brake,

The clustering grape not blushes, and the fig

Decks not the prickly thistle’s barren stalk;