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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’Tis like those days wherein the young ones cried,

Hosanna! while the old ones did deride.

Bunyan.

At his first aptness the maternal love

Those rudiments of wisdom did improve;

The tender age was pliant to command;

Like wax it yielded to the forming hand:

True to the artificer, the laboured mind

With ease was pious, generous, just, and kind;

Soft for impression, from the first prepared,