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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With anxious skill,

When soon the hand will freeze, the throbbing heart be still?

H. K. White.

DUTY.

Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.—Ecclesiastes, xii. 13.

So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.—Luke, xvii. 10.

Who shall, O God! ascend thy holy hill?

Ev’n he whose hands are clean, whose heart is pure,

Faithful of Word, and dutiful of Will.