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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Who dared to rally round the Holy Cross,

And worship Him whose sacred form it bore,

Were first called Christians. In thy sad conceit,

Thou mad’st a stigma of reproach and shame,

This noblest title of the sons of earth:

While, save for this, thy name were scarcely known,

Except among the mouldering vestiges

Of dim antiquity. So doth our God

Make all men’s folly ever praise His name.

J. L. Chester.