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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

_Honour_--in blood congealed to take a life,
    Which had been murder in the heat of strife!
    _Honour_--when its result we dare not tell!
    _Honour_--to plunge a fellow’s soul to hell!
    _Honour_--to stand to be a murderer’s mark,
    And hurl defiance e’en with life’s last spark;
    To dare that law which has for ages stood--
    “He dies by man who sheds a brother’s blood!”
    Oh, in that moment when we all shall stand
    Waiting the judgment of the Almighty hand,
    Will then thy _honour_ palliate the crime,
    And Heaven’s high monarch hear the plea of time?
    Stript of those robes which make it _honour_ here,
    Before that throne the murder will appear,
    Disrobed of ornament the sin is there;
    The crime is Cain’s; why not his judgment share--
    An outcast on the earth, and in the Heaven,
    O God! can crimes like these be e’er forgiven?
                                                _Anon._




                                 HOPE.


Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose _hope_ is in
the Lord his God.--Psalm cxlvi. 5.

The Lord is my portion, saith my soul, therefore will I _hope_ in
Him.--Lamentations, iii. 24.

It is good that a man should both _hope_ and quietly wait for the
salvation of the Lord.--Lamentations, iii. 26.

If in this life only we have _hope_ in Christ, we are of all men the
most miserable.--I. Corinthians, xv. 19.

Which _hope_ we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast,
and which entereth into that within the veil.--Hebrews, vi. 19.


      Upon her arm a silver anchor lay,
    Whereon she leaned ever, as befel:
      And ever up to Heaven as she did pray,
      Her steadfast eyes were bent, not swerved otherway.
                                                _Spenser._


    _Hope_, eager _hope_, the assassin of our joy,
    All present blessings treading under foot,
    Is scarce a milder tyrant than despair.
    With no past toils content, still planning new,
    _Hope_ turns us o’er to death alone for ease.
    Possession why more tasteless than pursuit?
    Why is a wish far dearer than a crown?
    That wish accomplished, why the grave of bliss?
    Because in the great future buried deep,
    Beyond our plans of empire and renown,
    Lies all that man with ardour should pursue;
    And He who made him, bent him to the right.
                                            _Young._

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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

_Honour_--in blood congealed to take a life,
    Which had been murder in the heat of strife!
    _Honour_--when its result we dare not tell!
    _Honour_--to plunge a fellow’s soul to hell!
    _Honour_--to stand to be a murderer’s mark,
    And hurl defiance e’en with life’s last spark;
    To dare that law which has for ages stood--
    “He dies by man who sheds a brother’s blood!”
    Oh, in that moment when we all shall stand
    Waiting the judgment of the Almighty hand,
    Will then thy _honour_ palliate the crime,
    And Heaven’s high monarch hear the plea of time?
    Stript of those robes which make it _honour_ here,
    Before that throne the murder will appear,
    Disrobed of ornament the sin is there;
    The crime is Cain’s; why not his judgment share--
    An outcast on the earth, and in the Heaven,
    O God! can crimes like these be e’er forgiven?
                                                _Anon._




                                 HOPE.


Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose _hope_ is in
the Lord his God.--Psalm cxlvi. 5.

The Lord is my portion, saith my soul, therefore will I _hope_ in
Him.--Lamentations, iii. 24.

It is good that a man should both _hope_ and quietly wait for the
salvation of the Lord.--Lamentations, iii. 26.

If in this life only we have _hope_ in Christ, we are of all men the
most miserable.--I. Corinthians, xv. 19.

Which _hope_ we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast,
and which entereth into that within the veil.--Hebrews, vi. 19.


      Upon her arm a silver anchor lay,
    Whereon she leaned ever, as befel:
      And ever up to Heaven as she did pray,
      Her steadfast eyes were bent, not swerved otherway.
                                                _Spenser._


    _Hope_, eager _hope_, the assassin of our joy,
    All present blessings treading under foot,
    Is scarce a milder tyrant than despair.
    With no past toils content, still planning new,
    _Hope_ turns us o’er to death alone for ease.
    Possession why more tasteless than pursuit?
    Why is a wish far dearer than a crown?
    That wish accomplished, why the grave of bliss?
    Because in the great future buried deep,
    Beyond our plans of empire and renown,
    Lies all that man with ardour should pursue;
    And He who made him, bent him to the right.
                                            _Young._

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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