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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Some, for fear of want,

Want all their lives; and others ev’ry day,

For fear of dying, suffer worse than death.

Ah! from your bosoms banish if you can

That fatal guest, I mean the demon fear,

That trembles at impossible events,

Lest aged Atlas should resign his load,

And Heaven’s eternal battlements rush down.

Is there an evil worse than fear itself?

And what avails it, that indulgent Heav’n