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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Grant me with reverential awe to hear

Thy holy voice, and in thy word confide!

Blot from my book of life its early stain!

Since days misspent will never more return,

My future path do thou in mercy trace;

So cause my soul with pious zeal to burn,

That all the trust which in thy name I place,

Frail as I am, may not prove wholly vain.

From the Italian of Pietro Bembo.

With zeal we watch,