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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Be rooted out, and virtuous habits take

Their place; and genuine piety descend

Like an inheritance, from age to age.

Wordsworth.

VISIONS.

And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night.—Genesis, xlvi. 2.

Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.

In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men.—Job, iv. 12, 13.

Our revels now are ended: these our actors,