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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The Omega of the sainted dead;

’Tis written where the pencill’d flowers

Their tablet to the desert show,

And where the mountain’s rocky towers

Frown darkly on the vale below;

Where roll the wondrous orbs on high,

In glorious order strong and fair,

In every letter of the sky

That midnight graves—’tis there—’tis there!

It gleams on ocean’s wrinkled brow,