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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Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife,

And spades, the emblems of untimely graves.

Cowper.

“Why sits thou by that ruin’d hall,

Thou aged carle so stern and grey?

Dost thou its former pride recall,

Or ponder how it pass’d away?”

“Know’st thou not me?” the deep voice cried,

“So long enjoyed, so oft misused—

Alternate, in thy fickle pride,