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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Power on his forehead, beauty in his face;

Sees in his breast, where lawless passions rove,

The heart of friendship, and the home of love;

Sees in his mind, where desolation reigns,

Fierce as his clime, uncultured as his plains,

A soil where virtue’s fairest flowers might shoot,

And trees of science bend with glorious fruit;

Sees in his soul, involved in thickest night,

An emanation of eternal light,

Ordained,’midst sinking worlds, his dust to fire,