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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Thou charm’st in Fancy’s idle dream,

In Reason’s philosophic page.

That very law which moulds a tear,

And bids it trickle from its source;

That law preserves the earth a sphere,

And guides the planets in their course.

Rogers.

TEMPERANCE.

Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.—I. Corinthians, ix. 25.