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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Still He, who felt temptation’s power

Shall guard me in that dangerous hour.

Grant.

And now came on temptation’s demon hour

To crush the Saviour! By the Holy Ghost

Constrained, within a desert’s trackless wild

Alone He wandered, unperceived by eyes

Of mortal; there to fathom time and truth,

Redemption and the vast designs of Love.