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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Oh, Pilgrim, faith must be thy guide

Across the desert wild and drear,

And o’er the Jordan’s swelling tide.

Egone.

CAPTIVITY.

By the rivers of Babylon there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?—Psalm cxxxvii. 1, 2, 3, 4.