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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Far from the voice of teachers and divines,

My soul would find in flowers of Thy ordaining,

Priests, sermons, shrines.

Horace Smith.

TEARS.

My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?—Psalm xlii. 3.

The Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces.—Isaiah, xxv. 8.

They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.

For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.—Revelation, vii. 16, 17.