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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Gay.

Gold, many hunted, sweat, and bled for Gold;

Waked all the night, and laboured all the day.

And what was this allurement dost thou ask?

A dust dug from the bowels of the earth,

Which, being cast into the fire, came out

A shining thing that fools admired, and called

A god; and in devout and humble plight

Before it kneeled, the greater to the less;