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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Young.

DEW.

Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine.—Genesis, xxviii. 28.

My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew.—Deuteronomy, xxxii. 2.

As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.—Psalm cxxxiii. 3.

O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? For your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.—Hosea, vi. 4.

See how the orient dew,

Shed from the bosom of the morn,

Into the blowing roses,