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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Neal, John

Neal, John (1793-1876). -- Novelist and poet, b. at Portland, Maine, was self-educated, kept a dry goods store, and was afterwards a lawyer. He wrote several novels, which show considerable native power, but little art, and are now almost forgotten. Among those which show the influence of Byron and Godwin are Keep Cool (1818), Logan (1822), and Seventy-six (1823). His poems have the same features of vigour and want of finish. In 1823 he visited England, and became known to Jeremy Bentham. He contributed some articles on American subjects to Blackwood's Magazinepage 285.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Neaves, Charles, Lord

Neaves, Charles, Lord (1800-1876). -- Miscellaneous author, b. and ed. in Edinburgh, was called to the Bar, and became a judge. He was a frequent contributor to Blackwood's Magazine. His verses, witty and satirical, were coll. as Songs and Verses, Social and Scientific. He wrote also on philology, and pub. a book on the Greek Anthology.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Harrop, David

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​HARROP. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 14; h-p., 25.)
David Harrop entered the Navy, 9 Jan. 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Sultan 74, Capt. Edw. Griffith, employed off Cadiz and in the Mediterranean; and in Aug. 1809 became Midshipman of the Formidable 98, Capts. Fras. Fayerman and Jas. Nicoll Morris. In Dec. 1811, after having served for some time on the Baltic and North Sea stations, in the latter ship and in the Christian VII. 80, bearing the flag of Admiral Wm. Young, he joined the Manilla 36, Capt. John Joyce, in which frigate he had the misfortune, on 28 of the following January, to be wrecked, on the Haak Sands, near the Texel. He was in consequence detained a prisoner of war until the peace of 1814, when, on his return to England, he was received on board the Impregnable 104, flag-ship at the time of H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence, but subsequently commanded off Lisbon by Capt. John Wentworth Loring. Mr. Harrop was next transferred in succession to the Niobe 40, armée en flûte, Capt. Henry Collins Deacon, and Centurion 50, and Bulwark 74, bearing each the flag of Rear-Admiral Edw. Griffith on the Halifax station; where, being created a Lieutenant of the last-mentioned ship, by commission dated 1 May, 1815, he continued to serve until paid off in Aug. of the same year. His succeeding appointments were – 19 Oct. and 4 Dec. 1818, to the Britomart and Wolf sloops, both commanded by Capt. Bernard Yeoman, under whom, in 1821, he escorted George IV. to Ireland – early in 1822, to the Helicon 10, Capt. Wm. Robt. Dawkins, in which vessel he sailed for the West Indies – and, 4 Feb. 1824, to the Valorous 26, Capt. Jas. Murray. Since the paying off of the latter vessel, on her return from Jamaica to England, Mr. Harrop has been unemployed. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Harrison, John

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​HARRISON. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 21; h-p., 22.)
John Harrison entered the Navy, 26 Jan. 1804, as L.M., on board the Inflexible 64, Capt. Thos. Bayley, stationed in the Downs. He became Midshipman, in June, 1805, of the Elephant 74, Capt. Geo. Dundas, and in Sept. 1807, after an intermediate servitude in the North Sea and West Indies, he was Appointed Master’s Mate of the Statira 38, Capts. Robt. Howe Bromley and Edwin Henry Chamberlayne, under whom he cruized on the American and Spanish coasts until Feb. 1809. Joining, then, the Valiant 74, Capts. John Bligh, Thos. Geo. Shortland, and Robt. Dudley Oliver, he witnessed the ensuing attack on the French shipping in Basque Roads, and was present, in the course of the same year, at the siege of Flushing. The Valiant being ultimately ordered to North America, Mr. Harrison there removed, in Aug. 1813, to the St. Domingo 74, bearing the flag of Sir John Borlase Warren. He obtained his commission 27 June, 1814, four years after he had passed his examination, and was subsequently, from 1817 until 1827, employed in command of different Telegraph stations on the Chatham and Portsmouth lines. He has not since held any official occupation.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Harrison, Joseph

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​HARRISON. (Captain, 1832. f-p., 24; h-p., 24.)
Joseph Harrison is son of the late Lieut. Harrison, R.N., who died Agent for Transports at Plymouth in 1808.
This officer entered the Navy, 25 July, 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Spider, Lieut.-Commander Rich. Harrison, of which vessel, successively stationed in the Channel and Mediterranean, he became Midshipman 1 Jan. 1800. During several months of the short-lived peace we find him again employed in the Channel on board the Oiseau, Capt. John Philips. He afterwards, in March, 1803, joined the Aurora frigate, Capts. Micajah Malbon and John Wentworth Loring, with whom he served on the Newfoundland station until transferred, in Jan. 1805, to the Pallas 42, Capt. Lord Cochrane. Proceeding subsequently to the West Indies in the Merlin sloop, Capt. John Parkinson, he was there, after a short attachment to the Northumberland 74, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane, appointed Sub-Lieutenant, 11 Sept. 1806, of the Grouper gun-brig. Attaining the full rank of Lieutenant 10 May, 1807, he afterwards joined, in that capacity – 11 May, 1808, the Epervier brig, Capts. Hon. Michael De Courcy, John Bowker, Thos. Tudor Tucker, Alex. Nesbitt, Thos. Barclay, and Jas. Pattison Stewart, also in the West Indies – 16 Nov. 1809, the Achille 74, Capts. Sir Rich. King, Hon. Geo. Heneage Lawrence Dundas, and Aiskew Paffard Hollis, during an attachment of nearly six years to which ship, besides commanding a Spanish gun-vessel at the defence of Cadiz, he served off Toulon, on the coast of Sicily, in the Adriatic, off Cherbourg, and on the South American station – and, 22 Sept. 1815, and 23 Oct. 1817, to the Inconstant and Semiramis frigates, respectively employed off the coast of Africa and at Portsmouth, and both commanded by Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo. On the occasion of his promotion to the rank of Commander 14 Sept. 1818, Capt. Harrison was invested, pro tem., with the charge of the Challenger 28. He was appointed to the Challenger 6 Sept. 1827 He afterwards obtained command, 6 May, 1829, of the Favorite sloop, fitting for the coast of Africa, ​whence he returned home and was paid off in Aug. 1833 – having been elevated to Post-rank on 9 of the previous Oct. He has not been since afloat.
Capt. Harrison married, 15 ApriJ, 1820, Catherine, daughter of Mr. Mottley, of Portsmouth.
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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Harrow, Henry

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​HARROW. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 9; h-p., 32.)
Henry Harrow entered the Navy, 30 Sept. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Adamant 50, Capts. John Stiles, John Fyffe, and Micajah Malbon, of which vessel, successively employed on the African and West India stations, he soon became Midshipman. From Dec. 1807 until Oct. 1813, we find him serving, chiefly in the West Indies, Baltic, and Channel, on board the Goelan and Favorite sloops, both commanded by Capt. Benj. Clement, Rover 18, Capt. Justice Finley, Crescent frigate, Capt. John Quilliam, and Boyne 98, and Ville de Paris 110, bearing each the flag of Sir Harry Burrard Neale. During his attachment to the Favorite, a period of nearly two years, he appears to have been very arduously employed, and to have passed through scenes of great mortality. On one occasion, we believe, he assisted by his indefatigable exertions in subduing an alarming fire which had broken out at Falmouth, on the north side of the island of Jamaica; and he was afterwards, while returning with convoy to England, present in a desperate hurricane, in which the same vessel lost her topmasts and sustained considerable injury. On leaving the Ville de Paris, as above, he was appointed Acting-Lieutenant of the Ferret brig, commanded on the north coast of Spain by Capt. Wm. Ramsden, but he went back to the former ship in Feb. 1814, and continued to serve in her until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 27 June following. Mr. Harrow, who was subsequently employed for 10 months in the West Indies and Channel on board the Swiftsure 74, Capt. Wm. Henry Webley, has been on half-pay since Aug. 1815.
He married, in April, 1834, Ann, youngest daughter of the late E. D. Bridger, Esq., of Barton Farm.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hart, Benjamin

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​HART. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 31.)
Benjamin Hart entered the Navy, 9 Jan. 1807, as Clerk, on board the Peterel sloop, Capt. John Lamborn, employed on the Jamaica station, whence he returned in Nov. 1808. Becoming Midshipman, in April, 1809, of the Minotaur 74, Capt. John Barrett, he continued to serve under that officer, on the Baltic station, until 22 Dec. 1810, when he had the misfortune to be wrecked, on the Haak Sands, near the Texel, and taken prisoner. On his release from captivity in May, 1814, he joined the Leviathan 74, Capts. Adam Drummond and Thos. Briggs, in which ship we find him employed, off Lisbon and Cork and in the Mediterranean, until Nov. 1815. He then took up a commission, dated on 6 of the previous March, and has since been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Harrison, George

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​HARRISON. (Lieutenant, 1834.)
George Harrison entered the Navy 21 July, 1816; passed his examination in 1824; and obtained his commission 6 Jan. 1834. He has since been on half-pay. Lieut. Harrison, the Senior of his rank on the List of 1834, is a Magistrate at Van Dieman’s Land. Agent – J. Hinxman.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hart, Francis

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​HART. (Commander, 1830.)
Francis Hart died in March, 1845.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 June, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Niobe 40, Capts. John Wentworth Loring and Wm. -Augustus Montagu, in which frigate he served on the coasts of Ireland, Spain, Portugal, and France, also in the West Indies, and off Greenland and the Western Islands, until Dec. 1813; participating during that period, as Midshipman, in an attack made, 15 Nov. 1810, by Capt. Chas. Grant of the Diana, upon the two French frigates Amazone and Eliza, protected by the fire of several strong batteries near Cherbourg, as likewise in the subsequent destruction of one of the same ships, near Barfleur, 25 March, 1811. Joining, next, the San Josef 110, bearing the successive flags of Rear-Admirals Edw. Jas. Foote and Sir Rich. King, he witnessed, on proceeding to the Mediterranean, the two partial actions with the Toulon fleet of 5 Nov. 1813 and 13 Feb. 1814. Towards the close of the latter year he sailed for the East Indies in the Cornwallis 74, bearing the flag of Sir Geo. Burlton, from which ship, commanded latterly by Capt. Robt. O’Brien, he removed, 9 April, 1816, as Acting-Lieutenant, to the Leda 36, Commodore Geo. Sayer. He was officially promoted 20 Jan. 1818, and subsequently appointed – 6 Oct. and 3 Dec. following, to the Minden 74, flagship of Sir Rich. King, and Conway 26, Capt. Edw. Barnard, also in the East Indies – 3 Dec. 1821, to the Semiramis frigate, bearing the flag at Cork of Lord Colville – 22 Sept. 1825, to the Volage 28, Capts. Hon. Rich. Saunders Dundas and Michael Seymour, on the South American station – and, 22 Aug. 1829, to the Alligator 28, Capt. Chas. Philip Yorke, in the Mediterranean. He attained the rank of Commander 26 Nov. 1830, but was not afterwards employed. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Harrison, John Gustavus

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​HARRISON. (Commander, 1842. f-p., 19; h-p., 5.)
John Gustavus Harrison, born 19 Nov. 1810, is son of the Rev. Wm. Harrison, Vicar of Fareham, and Prebendary of Winchester Cathedral.
This officer entered the Navy, 13 March, 1823, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Ramillies 74, commanded on the Home station by Capt. Edw. Brace, with whom he was afterwards employed for some time in the West Indies as Midshipman of the Ganges 84. While next attached, from Nov. 1824 until Jan. 1827, to the Boadicea 42, Commodore Sir Jas. Brisbane, we find him serving in the East Indies and participating in many of the operations connected with the Burmese war. He then for a few months joined the Java 52, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Wm. Hall Gage, on the same station; where, until the close of 1829, he further served in the Rainbow 28, Capt. Hon. Henry John Rous, and again in the Java, Capt. Wm. Fairbrother Carroll. In Feb. 1830, immediately on passing his examination, Mr. Harrison was appointed Mate of the Victory 104, flag-ship at Plymouth of Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford. He was next transferred in succession to the St. Vincent 120, and Asia 84, bearing each the flag of Sir Thos. Foley, Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth; and for several months of 1831 he cruized in the Channel on board the Brisk 3, Lieut.-Commander Edw. Harris Butterfield. During the four following years he appears to have been again employed in the East Indies, for twelve months of the time as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Melville 74, flag-ship of Sir John Gore. Being at length promoted (from the Britannia 120, bearing the flag at Portsmouth of Sir Philip Durham) to the rank of Lieutenant, by commission dated 3 April, 1837, he was appointed, on 10 of that month, to the Larne 18, Capt. Patrick John Blake, and again ordered to the East Indies. He afterwards took part in the hostilities on the coast of China, where, in command of the Larne’s pinnace, he contributed, with much credit to himself, to the capture, 7 Jan. 1841, of the enemy’s forts at Chuenpee, and the destruction of 11 powerful junks, forming the flower of the Celestial Navy – a service for which he was recommended to the notice of the Admiralty. Mr. Harrison’s next and last appointment was, 16 Oct. 1841, to the First-Lieutenancy of the Calliope 26, Capt. Augustus Leopold Kuper, in which vessel he shared in the operations of 1842 up the Yang-tse-Kiang. His advancement to the rank he now holds took place on 23 Dec. in the latter year. It was made the reward of his services in China.
Commander Harrison married, first, in 1836, Jane, daughter of the late W. Hindmarch, Esq., of Bishopwearmouth; and, secondly, 19 July, 1843, a daughter of the late J. Pooke, Esq., of Fareham. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841, pp. 1221-2.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1842, p. 3821.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Harston, Henry Cooke

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​HARSTON. (Commander, 1845.)
Henry Cooke Harston entered the Navy 16 Aug. 1826; passed his examination in 1832; and, on his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 26 Oct. 1840, was appointed to the Albert steamer, Capt. Henry Dundas Trotter, employed on an expedition up the river Niger. Quitting the latter vessel towards the close of 1841, he was subsequently appointed First, 15 April, 1842, and 25 Jan. 1845, of the Philomel surveying-vessel, and Eclair steam-sloop, commanded on the Brazilian and African stations by Capts. Bartholomew Jas. Sulivan and Walter Grimston Bucknall Estcourt. Having the good fortune to survive the ravages of the fearful disease which, in Sept. 1845, swept away the Captain and nearly the whole of the crew belonging to the Eclair, Mr. Harston, on his arrival home, was promoted to his present rank by commission bearing date 6 Dec. in the same year. He has since been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Harris, William Clark

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​HARRIS. (Lieut., 1811. f-p., 25; h-p., 22.)
William Clark Harris entered the Navy, 6 Jan. 1800, as a Volunteer, on board the Alarm frigate, Capt. Robt. Rolles, on the Jamaica station, where, from the following Oct. until Feb. 1806, he served, as Midshipman, in the Apollo frigate, Capt. Peter Halkett, Hunter and Goelan sloops, Capts. Sam. Hood Inglefield and John Ayscough, and Pitt schooner, Lieut.-Commander Michael Fitton. He then, for the purpose of returning home, joined Le Brave, Capt. Edm. Boger, which ship, however, one of those taken in the action off St. Domingo, unfortunately foundered during her passage in a gale between the Western Islands and the banks of Newfoundland, 12 April, 1806, just affording time for her officers and crew to be rescued by the Donegal 74, Capt. Pulteney Malcolm, then in company. Owing to the consequent loss of his certificates and other papers, and to the Pitt’s books not being sent to England, Mr. Harris, although he had served his time, was unable to pass his ​examination at Somerset House until the summer of 1808, by which period he had been further employed for two years, chiefly as Master’s Mate, and on various stations, in the Ganges 74, Capt. Peter Halkett, and Hibernia 120, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Cotton. From the latter date, until officially promoted, 18 April, 1811, we find him successively officiating as Acting-Lieutenant, on the Lisbon and Mediterranean stations, of the Hindostan 50, armée en flûte, Capts. Geo. Skinner and John Pasco, Merope, Capts. John Houstoun and Edw. Flinn, Pelorus 18, Capt. Thos. Huskisson, Thalia 36, Capt. Jas. Giles Vashon, and Shark receiving-ship, Capt. Nicholas Pateshall. He was afterwards re-appointed to the Shark, but, being obliged to invalid in Feb. 1812 from a severe affection of the eyes, was next employed, from 13 of the following Oct. until 4 Oct. 1814, in the Kron Princessinn Maria, prison-ship at Portsmouth, Lieut.-Commander Thos. Burdwood, and Enterprize, Impress service-ship, on the river Thames, Capt. Thos. Richbell. His appointments have since been – 3 Sept. 1825, to the command of the Dove Revenue-vessel – 15 July, 1829, to be Agent for Transports Afloat, the duties of which office he continued to fill, with the exception of a few months in 1830, until 1834 – and 21 May, 1842, again to the Transport service, in which he is still employed. Agents – Pettet and Newton.
# A Tangled Tale/Answers to Knot VIII

ANSWERS TO KNOT VIII.
§ 1. The Pigs.
Problem.—Place twenty-four pigs in four sties so that, as you go round and round, you may always find the number in each sty nearer to ten than the number in the last.
Answer.—Place 8 pigs in the first sty, 10 in the second, nothing in the third, and 6 in the fourth: 10 is nearer ten than 8; nothing is nearer ten than 10; 6 is nearer ten than nothing; and 8 is nearer ten than 6.
This problem is noticed by only two correspondents. Balbus says "it certainly cannot be solved mathematically, nor do I see how to solve it by any verbal quibble." Nolens Volens makes Her Radiancy change the direction of going round; and even then is obliged to add "the pigs must be carried in front of her"!
§ 2. The Grurmstipths.
Problem.—Omnibuses start from a certain point, both ways, every 15 minutes. A traveller, starting on ​foot along with one of them, meets one in 12½ minutes: when will he be overtaken by one?
Answer.—In 6¼ minutes.
Solution.—Let "a" be the distance an omnibus goes in 15 minutes, and "x" the distance from the starting-point to where the traveller is overtaken. Since the omnibus met is due at the starting-point in 2½ minutes, it goes in that time as far as the traveller walks in 12½; i.e. it goes 5 times as fast. Now the overtaking omnibus is "a" behind the traveller when he starts, and therefore goes "a + x" while he goes "x." Hence a + x = 5 x; i.e. 4 x = a, and x = a/4. This distance would be traversed by an omnibus in 15/4 minutes, and therefore by the traveller in 5 × 15/4. Hence he is overtaken in 18¾ minutes after starting, i.e. in 6¼ minutes after meeting the omnibus.
Four answers have been received, of which two are wrong. Dinah Mite rightly states that the overtaking omnibus reached the point where they met the other omnibus 5 minutes after they left, but wrongly concludes that, going 5 times as fast, it would overtake them in another minute. The travellers are 5-minutes-walk ahead ​of the omnibus, and must walk 1-4th of this distance farther before the omnibus overtakes them, which will be 1-5th of the distance traversed by the omnibus in the same time: this will require 1¼ minutes more. Nolens Volens tries it by a process like "Achilles and the Tortoise." He rightly states that, when the overtaking omnibus leaves the gate, the travellers are 1-5th of "a" ahead, and that it will take the omnibus 3 minutes to traverse this distance; "during which time" the travellers, he tells us, go 1-15th of "a" (this should be 1-25th). The travellers being now 1-15th of "a" ahead, he concludes that the work remaining to be done is for the travellers to go 1-60th of "a," while the omnibus goes 1-12th. The principle is correct, and might have been applied earlier.
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# A Tangled Tale/Knot I

KNOT I.
EXCELSIOR.
"Goblin, lead them up and down."
The ruddy glow of sunset was already fading into the sombre shadows of night, when two travellers might have been observed swiftly—at a pace of six miles in the hour—descending the rugged side of a mountain; the younger bounding from crag to crag with the agility of a fawn, while his companion, whose aged limbs seemed ill at ease in the heavy chain armour habitually worn by tourists in that district, toiled on painfully at his side.
As is always the case under such circumstances, the younger knight was the first to break the silence.
​"A goodly pace, I trow!" he exclaimed. "We sped not thus in the ascent!"
"Goodly, indeed!" the other echoed with a groan. "We clomb it but at three miles in the hour."
"And on the dead level our pace is——?" the younger suggested; for he was weak in statistics, and left all such details to his aged companion.
"Four miles in the hour," the other wearily replied. "Not an ounce more," he added, with that love of metaphor so common in old age, "and not a farthing less!"
" 'Twas three hours past high noon when we left our hostelry," the young man said, musingly. "We shall scarce be back by supper-time. Perchance mine host will roundly deny us all food!"
"He will chide our tardy return," was the grave reply, "and such a rebuke will be meet."
"A brave conceit!" cried the other, with a merry laugh. "And should we bid him bring us yet another course, I trow his answer will be tart!"
"We shall but get our deserts," sighed the elder knight, who had never seen a joke in his life, and was somewhat displeased at his companion's untimely levity. " 'Twill be nine of the clock," he ​added in an undertone, "by the time we regain our hostelry. Full many a mile shall we have plodded this day!"
"How many? How many?" cried the eager youth, ever athirst for knowledge.
The old man was silent.
"Tell me," he answered, after a moment's thought, "what time it was when we stood together on yonder peak. Not exact to the minute!" he added hastily, reading a protest in the young man's face. "An' thy guess be within one poor half-hour of the mark, 'tis all I ask of thy mother's son! Then will I tell thee, true to the last inch, how far we shall have trudged betwixt three and nine of the clock."
A groan was the young man's only reply; while his convulsed features and the deep wrinkles that chased each other across his manly brow, revealed the abyss of arithmetical agony into which one chance question had plunged him.
"AT A PACE OF SIX MILES IN THE HOUR."
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Palgrave, Francis Turner

Palgrave, Francis Turner (1824-1897). -- Poet and critic, s. of the above, ed. at Oxf., was for many years connected with the Education Department, of which he rose to be Assistant Sec.; and from 1886-95 he was Prof. of Poetry at Oxf. He wrote several vols. of poetry, including Visions of England (1881), and Amenophis (1892), which, though graceful and exhibiting much poetic feeling, were the work rather of a man of culture than of a poet. His great contribution to literature was his anthology, The Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics (1864), selected with marvellous insight and judgment. A second series showed these qualities in a less degree. He also pub. an anthology of sacred poetry.