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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And Time reveals,

As past it steals,

The potent hand of God, the Everlasting,

Guiding the Sun, with all his blazing peers,

And filling up the measure of our years,

Until Messiah, Prince, to judgment hasting,

Shall roll the darkness from this world of sin,

And bid a bright eternity begin.

The years fly faster than they did whilom—

With greater speed they go, with greater come,