. Religious emblems and allegories : a series of engravings, with suitable letter-press, designed to illustrate divine truth . Mv heart is fixed.—Ps. cviii. i. I press toward the mark for the Phil. iii. 14. DECISION AND PERSEVERANCE. See where the Alps rear up their giant brow ;King of the mounts, with coronet of snow;Scorning all time and change, his stalwart form,Endures the peltings of eternal storm ;In awful pride, enthroned above the upon peaks in matchless grandeur rise :JMid frowning glaciers, on. whose icy crestThe savage vulture builds its craggy nest,The fathomles
. Religious emblems and allegories : a series of engravings, with suitable letter-press, designed to illustrate divine truth . Mv heart is fixed.—Ps. cviii. i. I press toward the mark for the Phil. iii. 14. DECISION AND PERSEVERANCE. See where the Alps rear up their giant brow ;King of the mounts, with coronet of snow;Scorning all time and change, his stalwart form,Endures the peltings of eternal storm ;In awful pride, enthroned above the upon peaks in matchless grandeur rise :JMid frowning glaciers, on. whose icy crestThe savage vulture builds its craggy nest,The fathomless abyss extends beneath,And leads the traveller to the realms of death : 172 RELIGIOUS ALLEGORIES. Napoleon comes in quest of fame and power,He scans the mounts that high above him barely possible, he will advance,And in Italia plant the flag of France;In vain the mountain, like a dreadful ghost,Rises to frighten the advancing towering clifF and yawning gulf he speeds,He means to pass, nor aught of danger heeds ;He scales the summit with his conquering trainAnd like the vulture swoops upon the pla
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