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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For he hath regarded the low estate of His handmaiden.—Luke, i. 46, 47, 48.

Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate.—Romans, xii. 16.

Go, miser! go; for lucre sell thy soul;

Truck wares for wares, and trudge from pole to pole,

That men may say, when thou art dead and gone,

See what a vast estate he left his son.

Dryden.

Wherever in the world I am,

In whatsoe’er estate,

I have a fellowship with hearts