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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Defies her labours, and resumes her own.

Whether she break communion with the tongue

And bid it mock you with the lie you wrung,

Or scorning such degenerate use of breath,

Escape with truth, and leave you dust and death.

Nicholas Thorning Moile.

Think’st thou to be concealed, thou little thought,

That in the curtained chamber of the soul

Dost wrap thyself so close, and dream to do

A secret work? Look to the hues that roll