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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Worship Christ the new-born King.

J. Montgomery.

The desire of the moth for the star—

Of the night for the morrow—

The devotion to something afar

From the sphere of our sorrow.

Shelley.

DESOLATION.

Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.—Proverbs, iii. 25.