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 all eternity shall be their spring.

Smart.

Man, (mortal creature,) fram’d to feel decays,

Thine unresisted power at pleasure sways,

Thou say’st return, and parting souls obey,

Thou say’st return, and bodies fall to-day.

For what’s a thousand fleeting years with Thee?

Or Time compared with long eternity?

Whose wings expanding infinitely vast,

O’erstretched its utmost ends of first and last.