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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Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ.—II. Corinthians, x. 1.

But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children.—I. Thessalonians, ii. 7.

The servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient.—II. Timothy, ii. 24.

Gently I took that which ungently came,

And without scorn forgave:—Do thou the same.

A wrong done to thee think a cat’s eye spark,

Thou wouldest not see, were not thine own heart dark.

Thine own keen sense of wrong that thirsts for sin,

Fear that—the spark self-kindled from within,

Which blown upon will blind thee with its glare,