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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Search the material tribes of earth, sea, air,

And the fierce Self, which strives and slays, is there;

What but that Self to man doth Nature teach?

Where the charmed link that binds the all to each?

Where the sweet law, (doth Nature boast its birth?)

“Good will to man, and charity on earth?”

Sir E. B. Lytton.

What though to poverty’s imploring voice

I give my earthly goods; though to the pile

I yield my body, if thy genuine love