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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Deep under water rolled; sea covered sea,

Sea without shore; and in their palaces,

Where luxury late reigned, sea monsters whelped

And stabled. Of mankind, so numerous late,

All left in one small bottom swam imbarked.

Milton.

Methinks I see a distant vessel ride,

A lonely object on the shoreless tide,

Within whose ark the innocent have found

Safety, when stayed destruction ravens round;