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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Where strain’d sardonic smiles are glossing still,

And grief is forced to laugh against her will;

Where mirth’s but mummery;

And sorrows only real be!

Sir Walter Raleigh.

COVENANT—RAINBOW.

And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me.

But with thee will I establish my covenant.—Genesis, vi. 13, 18.

And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud.