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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But lasting Charity’s more ample sway,

Ne’er bound by time, nor subject to decay,

In happy triumph shall for ever live,

And endless good diffuse, and endless praise receive.

Prior.

Here see, acquitted of all vain pretence,

The reign of genuine charity commence.

Though scorn repay her sympathetic tears,

She still is kind and still she perseveres;

The truth she loves a sightless world blaspheme,