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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Those godlike men, to wanting virtue kind,

Bounty well placed preferred, and well designed,

To all their titles.

Dryden.

How full of cheer,

Joyous, devout, and grateful is the soul

To see again its unexhausted God

Thus pile the table of a world with bread!

For what’s the globe on which we all subsist?

The table of immortal bounty ’tis,