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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List not those cries! How strangely do they blend

With the sweet bells from yonder gothic tower,

Pealing athwart the water. Such the contrast

Of wild religious awe to earthly clamour,

For on the morrow, and the morrow’s morrow,

At this still hour those bells will still peal on;

But these harsh sinful cries, the moment’s offspring,

Will with the moment pass to nought away,

They, and the passions, even as briefly raging;