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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As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous, therefore, and repent.—Revelation, iii. 19.

Farewell to earth; my life of sense is o’er;

My heart is changed, I feel my bonds untied;

And casting every thought impure aside,

My guilty course abandon and deplore.

Fallacious leaders I obey no more;

I follow thee, refuse all other guide;

And ne’er did shipwrecked bark with broken side

Loose from the shelves more anxious for a shore.

And since I spent with risk of mortal harm,