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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Him first to love, great right and reason is,

Who first to us our life and being gave,

And after, when we fared had amiss,

Us wretches from the second death did save;

And last, the Food of Life, which now we have,

Even He Himself, in His dear Sacrament,

To feed our hungry souls, unto us lent.

Then next to love our brethren, that were made

Of that self-mould, and that self-Maker’s hand.

Spenser.