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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Skirting creation’s far verge on thy way.

Grandeur and glory, they travel before thee,

Brightness and majesty walk in thy train!

Darkness it flies from thee, clouds may not rise to thee

When thou awak’st from the ocean again.

All own thy influence, kindly thou dost dispense

Blessings o’er nature where’er its bounds be;

Afric’s lone desert, it blooms at thy presence;

And Lapland is turn’d into summer by thee.

Time cannot conquer thee, age cannot alter thee,