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 mercy broods above the distant gloom.

Bishop Heber.

The Lord shall come! the earth shall quake;

The mountains to their centre shake;

And withering from the vault of night,

The stars shall pale their feeble light.

The Lord shall come! but not the same

As once in lowliness he came;

A silent Lamb before His foes,

A weary man and full of woes.