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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.

Religion

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.

Quotations; Religious poetry

The Lord shall come! but not the same
    As once in lowliness he came;
    A silent Lamb before His foes,
    A weary man and full of woes.

    The Lord shall come! a dreadful form,
    With rainbow wreath, and robes of storm;
    On cherub wings and wings of wind,
    Appointed Judge of all mankind!
                                 _Bishop Heber._


    The chariot! the chariot! its wheels roll on fire,
    As the Lord cometh down in the pomp of his ire;
    Self-moving it drives on its pathway of cloud,
    And the heavens with the burthen of Godhead are bowed!

    The glory! the glory! by myriads are pour’d
    The host of the angels to wait on their Lord,
    And the glorified saints and the martyrs are there,
    And all who the palm-wreath of victory wear.
                                            _H. H. Milman._


    Messiah comes! ye rugged paths be plain!
    The Shiloh comes! ye towering cedars bend;
    Swell forth, ye valleys; and, ye rocks, descend;
    The withered branch let balmy fruits adorn,
    And clustering roses twine the leafless thorn;
    Burst forth, ye vocal groves, your joy to tell--
    The God of Peace redeems His Israel.
                                     _C. H. Johnson._




                              ADVERSITY.


He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved, for I shall never be
in _adversity_.--Psalm x. 6.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of _adversity_
consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end
that man should find nothing after him.--Ecclesiastes, vii. 14.

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which
suffer _adversity_, as being yourselves also in the body.--Hebrews,
xiii. 3.


    Stern teacher! should’st thou come, and sit by me,
      And fix upon me thy dread, stony eyes,
    Calmly may I behold and welcome thee,
      As one that hath a message from the skies,
      Fraught with intelligence to make me wise:
    God grant me strength to view thee steadfastly,
      And listen to thy voice, though agonies
    Should rack my soul or frame. _Adversity!_
    Full oft hast thou a friend to mortals been,
      A blessing in disguise, though stern thy look;
    Hard is thy hand, but still thy palms between
      Thou hold’st outspread the pages of God’s Book;
    Wherein who reads with humble, prayerful mind,
    Will hope, and ease, and consolation find.
                                                _Anon._


    When first thy sire to send on earth
      Virtue, his darling child, designed,
    To thee he gave the heavenly birth,
      And bade thee form her infant mind.
    Stern rugged nurse, thy rigid lore
    With patience many a year she bore;
    What sorrow was thou bad’st her know,
    And, from her own, she learned to melt at other’s woe.
                                                    _Gray._

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