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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The wise expect, the sorrowful invite;

And all the good embrace, who know the Grave,

A short dark passage to eternal light.

Sir W. Davenant.

This world death’s region is, the other, life’s:

And here it should be one of our first strifes,

So to front death, as each might judge us past it:

For good men but see death, the others taste it.

Ben Jonson.

The glories of our birth and state