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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Rowe.

Death comes with irrespective feet

And beats upon the door,

That shuts the palace of the great,

The cabin of the poor.

Howell, from Horace.

And since ’tis certain then that we must die,

No hope, no chance, no prospect of redress;

Be it our constant aim, unswervingly,

To tread God’s narrow path of holiness: