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 recollecting its own light,

Does in its pure and circling thoughts express

The greater heaven in an heaven less.

In how coy a figure wound,

Every way it turns away;

So the world excluding round,

Yet receiving in the day;

Dark beneath but bright above,

Here disdaining, there in love:

How loose and easy hence to go;