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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And spurn the vanity

Of time’s delusive years,

And all its flattering hopes, and all its frowning fears.

What is the ground ye tread

But a mere point compared with that vast space

Around, above you spread—

Where, in the Almighty’s face,

The present, future, past, hold an eternal place?

From the Spanish of Luis Ponce de Leon.

We walk amid delusions here,