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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What high contents! illustrious faculties!

But the grand comment which displays at full

Our human height, scarce sever’d from divine,

By heaven composed, was publish’d on the cross.

Young.

There, where the cross in hoary ruin nods,

And weeping yews o’ershade the lettered stones;

While midnight silence wraps these dark abodes,

And soothes me, wand’ring o’er my kindred bones;

Let kindled fancy view the glorious morn,