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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It taught me how to die.

Geo. P. Morris.

BIRDS—FOWLS.

And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.—Genesis, i. 20, 22.

Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night; who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?—Job, xxxv. 10, 11.

In the Lord put I my trust: how say ye to my soul. Flee as a bird to your mountain?—Psalm xi. 1.

I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.—Psalm l. 11.

Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers.—Psalm cxxiv. 7.