Retire and read thy Bible, to be gay; There truths abound of sovereign aid peace; So has this Book entitled us to heaven, Precious Bible! what a treasure Does the word of God afford! Food and medicine, shield and sword: NEWTON. If on the book itself we cast our view, cause, When what is taught agrees with Nature's Then for the style, majestic and divine, same As the first fiat that produced our frame. DRYDEN. "Tis Revelation satisfies all doubts, Most wondrous book! bright candle of the Lord! Star of eternity! the only star By which the bark of man could navigate to The sea of life, and gain the coast of bliss Securely; only star which rose on time, Ah! do not prize them less, because in- And, on its dark and troubled billows, still spired, As thou and thine are apt and proud to do. wise! YOUNG. It is the armory of light; To holy hands and humble hearts, As generation, drifting swiftly by, Of heaven's own light, and to the hills of God, POLLOK. There wilt thou learn what to thy ardent mind Which animates the glowing page they He proved all creeds false but his own, and found, penned. HODSON. Sad error this, to take The light of nature, rather than the light moon To the effulgence of the noon-day sun. BATES. Stars are poor books, and oftentimes do miss; This book of stars lights to eternal bliss. HERBERT. At last, his own most false; most false, because He spent his time to prove all others so. POLLOK. And nature's God, to whom alone Of form and creed and outward things, WHITTIER. |