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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Are the creatures dear still clinging near?

Do we hear loved voices come?

Do we gaze on eyes whose glances shed

A halo round our home?

Oh, if we do, let thanks be pour’d

To Him who hath spared and given,

And forget not o’er the festive board

The mercies held from heaven.

Then a welcome and cheer to the merry new year,

While the holly gleams above us;