Wit fancies beauty; beauty raiseth wit. The world is theirs; they two play out the game, Thou standing by. And though thy glorious name Wrought our deliverance from th' infernal pit, Who sings thy praise ?-Only a scarf or glove PART II. IMMORTAL heat, O let thy greater flame Which shall consume the world, first make it tame; As may consume our lusts, and make thee way. And there in hymns send back thy fire again. Our eyes shall see thee, which before saw dustDust blown by wit, till that they both were blind. Thou shalt recover all thy goods in kind, Who wert disseized by usurping lust. All knees shall bow to thee; all wits shall rise, And praise him, who did make and mend our eyes. The Temper. How should I praise thee, Lord! how should my rhymes Gladly engrave thy love in steel, If what my soul doth feel sometimes, My soul might ever feel! Although there were some forty heavens or more, Oh, rack me not to such a vast extent! Wilt thou meet arms with man, that thou dost stretch A crumb of dust from heaven to hell? Oh, let me, when thy roof my soul hath hid- And I of hope and fear. Yet take thy way; for sure thy way is best. To make the music better. Whether I fly with angels, fall with dust, The Temper. IT cannot be. Where is that mighty joy The grosser world stands to thy word and art; But thy diviner world of grace Thou suddenly dost raise and raze, And every day a new Creator art. Oh, fix thy chair of grace, that all my powers May also fix their reverence: For when thou dost depart from hence, They grow unruly, and sit in thy bowers. Scatter, or bind them all to bend to thee. Jordan. WHO says, that fictions only and false hair Is it not verse, except enchanted groves Shepherds are honest people; let them sing. Employment. If, as a flower doth spread and die, Thou wouldst extend me to some good, Before I were by frost's extremity Nipt in the bud; The sweetness and the praise were thine : Which in thy garland I should fill, were mine, For as thou dost impart thy grace, The measure of our joys is in this place, Let me not languish, then, and spend As is the dust to which that life doth tend, All things are busy; only I Neither bring honey with the bees, I am no link of thy great chain, The Holy Scriptures. PART I. O Book! infinite sweetness! let my heart To clear the breast, to mollify all pain. Thou art all health; health thriving till it make Of strange delights, where we may wish and take. That mends the looker's eyes: this is the well Thou art joy's handsel. Heaven lies flat in thee, Subject to every mounter's bended knee. |