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Introduction
The Facts of Vaughan's
Life
Scintillans,
residence
is
in the
IXTRODUCTION
Henry went up to Jesus College.
Here Thomas took his degree, but Henry
if he was an Oxford man at all, and he
never claims the honour in any of his
poems seems to have left the university
in two years' time without graduating, and
to have passed some time in London in
From law he turned
the study of law.
to arms
for he was evidently an ardent
Royalist, and, like other of the metaphysical poets, appears to have taken a more
or less bloodless part in the Civil Wars.
During the Coinmonwealth period he returned home, and spent his years partly
case of
iv
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on his return from Scotland (to this anthology, issued in 1641, a writer called H.
Vaughan contributed an ode); Poems, -with
the tenth
satyre of
Juvenal Englished, by
vate Ejaculations,
1650
in
addition to
its
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poem
is
bewildering
ing-
'
',
frequency.
groan
'
',
storm
',
Bed
'
'
morn-
'
',
eternity
are each
'
'
'
all
',
'
'
'
'
ually pure',
'wing',
'
'
'
'
'
'
'
'
'
'
',
'
being mentioned on one hundred and fiftyfour, the latter on one hundred and sixtysix occasions.
The explanation of this restricted dialect is not far to seek. Vaughan,
who loved Nature deeply, in his anthropomorphic and theosophical fashion, is never
tired of illustrating some spiritual truth by
symbols taken from the great natural phe-
nomena
He
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loves
of
sad vicissitude
the
resolve
'
to
'
thiiij4S
so
';
'
'
'
'
'
'
'
'
'
'
'
'
'
'
',
',
list
1.
The
use of
streams
springs
'
and
'
',
wells
waters
with the addition of the epithet
'
',
'
',
'
The attaching
fountains ',
', generally
'
living
',
to
life.
of a metaphorical value
illustrate spiritual bless-
'
'
'
'
saints' tears
',
of
'
'.
Christ's tears
',
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and of Christ's blood
showers of Nature.
'
5.
The
from apparel as
weeds
rags
'
',
God
6.
'
',
iving
'
',
'
in
dress
'
',
suits
',
rents
'
',
'
'cell',
as
'
clothes
'
robes
and livery
The employment of cot
vests
rp\
'
the
to
',
'
',
',
'
wear
',
array
',
room
',
'.
',
'
inn ',
'
of the
Vaughan never
flint in
to his
poem
of
their
magnificent couplet,
The
Lets
new
and that
to
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Frailty " of the soul's house of bondage,
sound a note of intensity in the use of this
emblem
vvhicli
vain to reach
tality
".
in
Vau^han,
happily inspired
indeed,
is
seldom very
when he makes
use of
'
grave suggesting a
'clothes', &c.
bed
'
'
with
of spiritual guides
'
curtains
',
Sundays,
'
'
',
or of the
'
'
'
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would
Your
must fetch his imfigures must be grotesque
're-
sentience',
'as-
cension
',
'
'attraction',
'influence',
contaction
',
and the
like.
The
by
another mystic of the time. Sir Thomas
Browne, in his Pseudodoxia the doctrine
that plants bear certain marks or signafirst
of these beliefs
belief scouted
sons.
"Timber" and
In
in
"Dressing"
',
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wounds. In "The Favour", as in
Constellation" and "The Star", he
relies on the belief that stars act as mag'-
from
its
"The
nets
to
attract
their
subject
herbs.
In
'
'
'
'
(cf.
"To
Gone
his
World
all
into
the
of
'
'
the sight
',
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talk of Nature's
'
springs
'
'
',
"The
ploited in
"
Man
must needs
",
strike twentieth-cen-
'
'
'
Platonists,
tian
may
to the palm-tree,
the
more
quaint
it is
image^which
is
may
and
add, by Cowley,
The burden
The
is
who
Vaughan from
World
"
and
also employed,
in his epic
how palms by
in
I
poem
oppression
tale of
images
is,
xii
however,
still
incom-
fNTRUDCCTION
plete,
'curls'
for
in
addition
and the
to
'silks'
remain for notice two famous figures borrowed from the Bible, which Vaughan
who is never averse from running one
metaphor into another plays with so fantastically and uses in such various senses as
may well perplex and confuse the unwarned
reader.
I
among
Take
Nor ever
chaste, except
.xiii
You
for
I,
shall be free,
ravish me.
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Even the habitual refinement and highbreeding of Herbert cannot prevent him
from speaking of God's
breasts ', and
affirming that men, as God's infants, suck
'
(i)
He makes
it
tive' (cf.
dalen
"St.
Mary Mag-
").
(ii) In
"The Law and the Gospel", in
" Holy Communion", and in " Easter Day"
he ascribes to it the properties of a spiritual
eye-salve.
(iii)
He
speaks of
of the Jewish
Recovery
Church
")
(cf.
law
it
(cf.
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(iv)
In
"The Check",
" Admission
"
in
he regards
it as vocal, like
other murdered blood, and so witnessing
in
against man.
it
as a refining
(v) And he describes
tincture and cleanser, a sense in which it
is used in the "Dedication", in the "Ascension Hymn ", and in " As Time one Day by
Me
did Pass
".
he gives
the
title
in"-
poems
"The Flam-
ol Silex Scintillans or
Flint",
and
Tempest".
The
word
as a
To
synonym
in
Vaughan's
emblem
and
in
of the
" Daphnis "
return to the
general
fire,
indeed,
'flint',
rule
'
this
rock
'
or
figure
'
stone
is
'.
used
As a
a
in
the sense of
thoroughly accepted sense
to give
stony
a heart too rocky or
'
'
XV
'
'
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God admittance
praise.
upon
it,
mediaeval
the
stone
'
sible
'
'
the law,
'
'
'
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B 269
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employed the reader must go to
poems which contains "White
Sunday", "Religion", "The Book",
" Righteousness ", the address " To Christian Religion " and " Misery". In the first
two pieces the rock is God, conceived as
figure
is
the group of
'
'
and
'
emblem
a favourite
word of Vaughan's for expressing man's
frailty and insignificance; and elsewhere
the whole similitude is varied by the proclamation of the poet's doctrine that stones,
though they have neither speech nor
tongue ', are yet
deep in admiration of
is
'
dust
',
'
'
'
',
Weeping
", is borrowed from Christ's rebuke of the Pharisees: "I tell you that if
Qr
B 269
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these should hold their peace, the stones
would immediately cry out ", a doctrine
which the poet develops in an uncanny but
luridly imaginative fashion in
"The
Stone",
Yet
poem Vaughan
to
'
more
stiff
stone,
and
so contrives
to
fuse
'
'
The
word
enough
to a
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them
in
"commerce
First
'twixt
in the first
sil
didst lodge
with Gideon,
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Advise
Abraham
with
when
Thy power
could not
One
have
mig-ht
sought
and
Thee
found
presently
"
He
is
we heard tell:
hear great Aaron's bell."
to Sinai gfone, as
ye
List,
may
and
in
ever,
'
',
tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good
'
finds
XX
IXTRODL'CTJON
So Vaughan's typical pileverything
grim, struggling back to Eden, has 'lessons
played him by a wind or wave', finds sublime truths and wholesome themes' lodging
in
the mystical, deep streams' of a waterall the vast expense in
fall, and regards
the creation shed, and slaved to sense' as
making up but lectures for his eye and
This Wordsworthian notion of the
ear'.
in
'.
'
'
'
'
the
universal
and mutual
co-relationship
of
interdependence
which Vaughan
is
all
God's
creatures
and it is at
all his religious poems
the root of the poet's next great theme, the
The second
piety of the lower creation.
ing in
"They
God's presence.
with him {i.e. man); for
that act, That fell him, foiled them all; Ho
drew the curse upon the world and cracked
The whole frame with his fall. " So says the
poet in "Corruption"; and starting with
this idea of beasts, plants, and stones being
in a state of estrangement or difference from
creatures
seemed
from
to quarrel
of natural
piety.
The
the superi-
man
first
in respect
hint
of this
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doctrine
given
is
"Affliction" (No.
I
and
read,
by
i),
and wish
sigh,
To
or siiade
fruit
in
were a tree
should
grow
some
at least
who,
Herbert,
says:
bird would
trust
Her household
in "
to
me, and
Employment"
(No.
i)
should be just;
exclaims:
am
and
To water these.
Thy great chain
no link
in
in
out
Oh
Some
"The
fruits for
Him
ghan a
doctrine of
'
pietas
'.
this
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example afforded by them to men, Vaughan
finds assuming many forms, and for the
convenience of the reader I append one
In
reference for every form distinguished.
"Christ's Nativity" this piety
fruit/illness
it
is
and plenitude
stability as
opposed
in
may
God;
to that
be called
in
"Man"
human
rest-
Matthew Arnold's
so eloquently denounces in " The
inelancholy stoicism of
poetry,
"The Search", is contrasted with the unreadiness and drowsiness of man, just as in
"The Tempest"
home of waters,
made
to
the
aspirations
towards
In
"Re-
pentance" the author celebrates the dutifulvess of the inanimate creation, a theme
pursued in " The Constellation ", where
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he very manifestly forestalls both Wordsand Arnold by broaching their
worth
'
'.
'
shoTc'H to Christ
Nativity,
to
the
in "
The Book
Thou
piety
'
and men
'
" to these
and
'
dumb
restore
shalt
to
creatures'
trees,
complete the
xxiv
beasts,
tale
of
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7^human
Temple
for
'
by an examination of
Vaughan's obligation to 'The
relig-ion
the nature of
the
conception of irratio7ial
For the conception, or
Vaughan
who,
in
likens
it
to
'
hear and fear', and in three stanzas of " Providence" expounds the following doctrine:
Of
all
tlie
Only
to
man
mute.
Man
is
The
he doth present
while they below
Vaughan
though
God, yet being so compara-
eager
to praise
man as high-priest (cf. "Christ's Nativity" and " Thf Bee"), and the kindred
of
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idea of the participation of
the world in
all
'
'
',
'.
'
to
'
",
in
And
xxvi
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And
song of "The
his
what
wilt
time
thoti
Dawning" ^A/
be
come?'' may
'
shows
is
semi
mystical,
never
entirely
reveals.
To
'
'
'
'
as
And this
a dome
'
which
',
in
'
gilded canopy
',
the sky,
'
xxvii
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himself and wrote
and all his visions,
whether they be of Heaven or of Earth, are
subjective rather than objective realities.
In that vivid pictorial sense which enabled
Keats to transfer a beautiful object straight
;
all his
and streams
impressions of glades,
extraordinarily
vivid
'
'
towards
towards
ecstasy or rapture.
For rapture he even
expresses, in one of his religious pamphlets,
something very like contempt. His mysti-
true
mystic.
speculation
and
cism, indeed,
vision,
was
scarcely
him
and
I
find in his poems no evidences of his
having been caught up into the seventh
Heaven, there to see and hear unutterable
things.
Nevertheless what he was privileged to see in a glass darkly, through
perspectives and strange crystals, or in the
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terrene state of the soul,
as Phito liad before hnn.
made
The
the colour.
first
occurs
And
but
its
necessarily robs
value.
in the
second
poem on "Vanity":
li souls be made
of earthly mould,
Let them love gold
If born on high,
Let them unto their kindred fly:
For they can never be at rest,
Till they regain their ancient nest.
And
is
made
in
Bouquet ":
When
In
"The
INTROD UCTION
God
And
cal
and
'
born on high
'.
is
'
fallen
visions,
Hugo, with
or,
'
"The
Retreat", Wordsworth
bases his famous " Intimations of Immortality ", an idea to which Arnold,
Wordsworth's disciple, recurs more than
pressed
in
such traces
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hidden source of being, as cause
hate to be detained on earth
to groan for that time when Christ
bring all stragglers home to their
shall
And the poet seems so enfirst love
amoured of this theory of the original
of his
him
and
'
to
'
'
'
'
'.
hood
"
elsewhere he has predicated of the childhood of the race, clinching his argument
age
by a description of infancy as an
which he must live twice that would God's
face see ', and basing his whole theory, as
seems probable, on that saying of Christ
which runs: " Except ye be converted and
become as little children, ye shall not enter
'
the
light'
who used
to shine,
beams of glory
ceived as
'
'
sometimes
everlasting [or
'
it
eternal
is
']
con-
hills
',
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place to which man has been banished,
and from which he will eventually, by
way
'
home
'
to
from impeding
Vaughan in the development of his ideas,
this very limitation of imagery and con'
liberty
'.
But,
far
an Intensity
attains
To
in
his
illustrate
will not
Gone
paratively
seem
to
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Should poor souls fear a shade or night,
Who came, sure, from a sea of light?
Or since those drops are all sent back
So sure to thee that none doth lack,
Why should frail flesh doubt any more
That what God takes He '11 not restore?
useful element
and
clear!
My
My
Vaughan, as
to Herbert,
in
his
poems as
'
Private Ejaculations
',
and
Pious
a similar description
of the reliThoughts and Ejaculations
gious verses which he includes in Thalia
In truth, as I have previously
Rediviva.
he
gives
'
B 269)
.\.\.\iii
'
INTRODUCTION
intimated, he could not have found a more
appropriate designation, for six of the
poems begin with interrogations ', thirteen
with 'affirmations ', twenty-one with 'excla'
mations
of God.
',
and
thirty-six with
'
invocations
'
is
this trick of
short,
/ have
who in "The
considered
it;,
in
Ephes.
Reprisal",
iv.
"The Temper"
is
30,
A nd
(No.
2),
his
poems no
bert's titles,
less
and follows
'
'
'
'
But the really significant features of resemblance between Herbert and Vaughan
are to be discovered in that parallelism
of phrase and of conceit which can be seen
xxxiv
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runninpf ri^hl throu{::^h The Temple and
Scintillans
a parallelism so con-
Silex
Dean
and
considered,
this imitation
must needs be
not as an
instance of
conveying', but as a profession of faith in his
'father', as an indispensable qualification
'
physical
called
it
this
for
the
great
notion
munion of
lovers
of
is
'
metaquizzical
the
'
telepathic
a rather
sterile
idea,
compara-
dox
the great metaphysical idea, then,
as expounded by Donne in "A Valediction
forbidding Mourning " and in " Soul's Joy,
now
am Gone ",
is
that, while
the passion
felt
by lovers more
'
refined'
and
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'
mind
interassured of the
'
such that
is
dis-
suit in his
Seas";
the
though he rather
two songs on
Once, and Think
Suckling,
Again", and
of
"When,
Thee" Cowley
;
Dearest,
in his
but think
Miscellanies under-
it called "Friendship in
Absence"; Lord Herbert of Cherbury embodied it in "I must Depart", and in the
second poem he devotes to " Platonic Love";
and Otway of all persons
celebrated it
too, for in "The Orphan" he represents
took a version of
Castalio as discoursing to
Monimia of
'
the
Vaughan's study
two poems addressed
to Amoret, an imaginary lady whose charms
also inspired both Lovelace and Waller.
The verses are graceful enough, but are
\i.e.
telepathy] converse'.
in this fancy is
made
in
no way distinguished
xx.wi
f6r sincerity or
for
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orlg-'inality
in liiem, as
sombre and
far less
comprehen-
pion
Vaughan,
it
will be observed,
meets with
His
the customary fate of the imitator.
fortune in these borrowings is, as it were,
aleatory.
pest", "
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The
crawls like 'a beetle in the mire'.
Silurist indeed often displays a strange lack
of tact. What can be more naively ludicrous
than the conversion of the Leviathan of
Psalm civ into
the comely, spacious
whale'? What can be more offensive to
taste and falser in sentiment than the
'
conceit of the
'
'
'
'
as the
'
fit
pliments
and
their amorist
poems.
He
xxxviii
talks of laughter
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as 'the wise man's madness', of affliction
as 'mere pleasure', of joy itself 'making
a right soul grieve'; he wishes that he
were 'one hearty tear', he inveighs against
the lewd, loathed motions of the dance,
and he alleges that Christ's life while here,
'
'
'
as well as birth,
and
mirth'.
antinomies, op-
wearied by these
artificial
pressed by
that
making himself
sees a dear
ridiculous,
hovers
sees
and
feels.
Poets
For Vaughan has his obvious limitations,
and just as he lacks the grace and wit of
Herbert, he is equally devoid of Crashaw's
ilaming passion and sustained intensity of
So while the last-named singer in
diction.
his two hymns to Saint Teresa mounts unerringly on an ascending and culminating
scale of passionate rhetoric, Vaughan, in
a similar case,
phrase to
'
is
sleep
content
at the
x.xxix
use his
ladder's
own
foot
'.
INTRODUCTION
And as his muse knows no
knows no equable flights
ecstatic, so
for
she
sometimes
Few
indeed of Vaughan's
finished
works
of
pression.
'
'
He
century poets, so at this point I will content myself with hinting that Arnold in
"Revolutions" employs a notion of God's
hieroglyphics, broken and undecipherable,
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Wordsworth's "Affliction of Margaret"
My
owes somethingf
There
to
Vaughan's
Or beam pass
Of lines resembling
'
tions
'
of
more modern
and
in
love
his
of children
some remarkable
mals, has
Vaughan.
and of
affinities
ani-
with
merely
'
'
'
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But a greater poet than Blake
then foreshadowed by the
now and
is
every
Silurist.
and
life,
but
dead
is
thrall.
minds one
irresistibly of
men
and
such lines as
life'
'
re-
He
'and
miscall delight
'.
Now
The road
foul
g-oes rig-ht,
How
they recall
clearly
known hymn
Almost as
Newman's
well-
clearly, indeed, as
certain lines in
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So have
my
bours to
And
in the
eyes,
of winter bring
To my cold thoughts
lively sense of spring.
a wizard to a
northern king
At Christmas-tide such wondrous things did show,
That through one window
Folk say,
men beheld
a
the spring.
And
the summer
And through
glow,
a third
the
December day.
and
it
though Morris's
Gabriel
owes
Traces of the
older poet's influence on her can be found
in
"Good-Friday" and
in
"For
a Mercy
We
cannot
sing-
or say.
O!
'tis
an easy thing
To
very hard
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The
feverish raptures of
Crashaw
and, save in
feature
Christian Year.
notion
may
appear,
it
is
possible to main-
Church of England
finds the
in
Scintillans.
W.
A.
LEWIS BETTANY.
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Contents
Page
Texts
3
13
Dedication
Part
17
Regeneration
23
30
Day
34
Death
of
27
Judgment
Religion
37
The Search
40
Isaac's Marriage
Fall
44
49
5'
53
and Recovery
The Shower
55
Distraction
57
59
60
62
The Pursuit
.
Mount of Olives
The Incarnation and Passion
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CONTENTS
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The Call
Thou That know'st For
Mourn
Vanity of Spirit
Content
69
71
--------...
y^
What do
wiiile Left
and Stealth of
Here?
Me Here
Cheerfulness
Sure, there
's
yy
79
83
85
Da3'.s!
93
95
gy
a Tie of Bodies
they So?
87
89
The Passion
And do
73
-------------------
Church-Service
Peace
81
Burial
66
Joy of my Life
The Storm
Silence
64
The Retreat
Come, Come!
Midnight
Whom
Page
The Relapse
The Resolve
The Match
91
98
loi
103
105
107
109
Corruption
119
Holy Scriptures
122
Unprofitableness
123
Christ's Nativity
'25
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Page
128
The Check
Disorder and Frailty
Idle
131
136
Verse
134
Son-Days
Repentance
138
142
'43
The
Burial of an Infant
Faith
The Dawning
-145
Admission
'47
'49
Praise
"
Dressing
152
Easter-Day
155
Easter
Hymn
156
161
Affliction
The Tempest
163
Retirement
167
170
'7'
the Gospel-
'73
The
The
The
The
The
The
157
160
121
Pilgrimage
Law and
World
Mutiny
180
Constellation
Misery
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Shepherds
The Sap
Mount of Olives
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igo
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Man
I
to
Begging:
Part
igg
Spend
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II
Ascension-Day
Ascension
Hymn
They are
All
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Gone
of Light
White Sunday
into the
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World
215
218
The Proffer
Cock-Crowing The Star
The Palm-Tree
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Joy
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The Favour
The Garland
Love-Sick
Trinity
Sunday
Psalm 104
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The Bird
The Timber
The Jews
Begging
253
Palm-Sunday
255
Jesus
Weeping
The Daughter
of Herodias
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Jesus
Weeping
Providence
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The Knot
The Ornament
St. Mary Magdalen The Rainbow
The Seed Growing Secretly As Time One Day by Me did Pass Fair and
The
The
The
The
The
Young Light
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280
286
287
283
Stone
Dwelling-Place
Men of War
Ass
Hidden Treasure
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296
Childhood
The Night
298
Abel's Blood
301
Righteousness
2)^3
Anguish
306
307
Tears
-
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3'^
3'6
Psalm 65
The Throne
3'8
Death
321
The Feast
The Obsequies
323
(B269)
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The Waterfall
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Quickness
3-51
The Wreath
The Queer
The Book
To
the
Holy Bible
L'Envoy
Appendix
Notes
332
333
334
336
338
341
395
AUTHORIS (DE
SE)
EMBLEMA
et
saxea riimpis
Et
fractas
fam sum
this
is
too well
known:
their fair
employments
them no other monuments of those excellent abilities conferred upon them, but such
may
as they
poems
whicii idle
will
certainly bring
to
And
well
it
were
for
them,
if
those will-
own
but
the case
is
far worse.
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
vessels
for
blessed
Os (lignum, aeterno
Si mallet laiidare
tinctuni
Denm, Cui
sordida nionstra
Hand
aliter,
qnnm cum
rastris
qui
tentet
eb units
Obscene,
No
Of
Wiiom he
preferred
vile fancies,
otherwise, then
jDolished .ivory,
if
with instruments
stir
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
This comparison
is
notliing odious,
and
it
is
o-old in
xi. 22.
Nay,
the
taken notice of this malady for the complaint against vicious verse, even by peace;
ful
in this
AUTHORS PREFACE
buyer receives
this
who want
of honour,
much
priv^ate
wallowing
lous
In
conceits,
authors, and as
many more
as they are
communicated
Is
to.
their condition,
If
who
all
their lifetime,
soul,
A UTHOR'S PREFA CE
I
am
he
left
behind him.
that
And
here, because
censure by
my
member, that
free confession,
many
years
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
man
it for an extenuation of
intended an apology for them,
or myself, who am conscious of so much
g-uilt in both, as can never be expiated
let
no
mistake
faults, as if
humbly and
would
read them.
But an
sensual subject
pamphlets.
not all
Certain
authors have been so irreverently bold, as
to dash Scriptures and the Sacred Relatives
of God with their impious conceits; and
(which I cannot speak without grief of
heart) some of those desperate adventurers
idle or
is
the poison in
these
may,
think,
principal or
verse.
it
ill,
ought
in conscience
they are put into his
lies
who
to refuse them, when
No loss is so
hands.
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
endamage
the soul.
He
pieties, is that
madman
and im-
in the Proverbs,
who
at the press.
The
true
remedy
lies vvhollv
God, deliver
all
from which,
spirits
many
life
pious converts, of
9
and verse
whom
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
am
may
Hence
they should
effect
things abroad,
those
to be seen in print.
to give
and contemplations
sake)
is
because
and
(if it
pious themes
be done for piety's
to
it
sanctity.
It is
up our thoughts
And
further,
it
communicable
some small
will
is
prelibation
lO
procure
that loving
of those
AT'THOR'S PREFACE
Heavenly refreshments, which descend but
very sparingly, upon men
But
indifferent holiness.
by
all
means
to
for perfection
and true
holi-
be opened to him
iv. i, and then he will
in
be able to write (with Hierotheus and holy
Herbert), " A True Hymn".
"a
door
Heaven", Rev.
ness, that
To
may
effect
this in
begged leave
talent to
to
with
it,
can
public, as
it
make
as useful
it
hath been
to
me
now
in the
in private.
In
(peradventure)
observe some passages, whose history or
reason may seem something remote; but
were they brought nearer, and plainly exthe perusal of
it,
you
will
And
of
therefore
them
must
you to accept
which is already
desire
in that latitude,
XX
AUTHORS PREFACE
"I was nigli unto death", and am still at
no great distance from it which was the
necessary reason for that solemn and accomplished dress, you will now find this im;
pression in.
But " the
God
of the spirits of
all flesh
"
fruit also;
and
unto
Whom,
Newton
fulfil
with
for
Him and
30, 1654.
Lord, the hope of Israel, all they that forsake Thee shall be ashamed; and they that depart
from Thee, shall be written in the earth, because
Lord
O
Thee
the life of
recover me,
and make me
Thou hast
in love to
to live.
For the grave cannot praise Thee, death cannot celebrate Thee: they, that go
pit,
down
into the
The
as I do this day:
shall tnake
known Thy
truth.
redeemed me from
vanities, forsake
own mercy.
Therefore shall
tny prayer unto the
the Joy of
14
Silex
B 269
Scintillans
1;
To mv most
the only
my
merciful,
dearly loved
most
Redeemer,
loving-,
and
JESUS CHRIST,
The Son of the living
Virgin Mary.
GOD, and
the sacred
me was
life
me.
Thee;
die for
offer
and
to
light,
Thy
sight.
Some
for
Thy
love
bent,
rent.
II
To
sun
call
it
on rocks,
rise
't
right,
As Thy
is
clothes,
all
Thine,
clothes
wert clad.
Both light from Thee, and virtue had
And now, as then, within this place,
Thou to poor rags dost still give grace.
This is the earnest Thy love sheds.
The candle shining on some heads,
Till at Thy charges they shall be
Clothed all with immortality.
Ill
My
And
For
all
Showed
too,
Thy
to
and
my
mercies and
me
in
my
light,
heart's delight!
Thy
truth.
sinful youth,
For
my
Murmurings
x8
For
all
desijifiis
meant
as^^ainst Tliee,
as
Heaven
nothing have to give to Thee,
But this Thy own gift, given to me.
Refuse It not; for now Thy token
Can tell Thee where a heart is broken.
1
Revel, cap.
i.
ver.
5,
6,
7.
so.
Amen.
19
And mix an
Then comes
the light;
which,
when you
spy>
And
Praise
Him,
Who
In tears to you, in
me.
Part
21
Regeneration
ward, and
1
It
slill
stole
in
Jl^
abroad
And
Blasted
my
surly winds
infant buds,
and
sin
my
mind.
And
as a pilgrim's eye,
REGENERA TION
3
So sighed
upwards
still
at last,
falls,
With
that
some
cried,
"Away";
straight
Some
called
virgin
Rude
Where
(since
Jacob's Bed
it
soil,
which no
He
go
Here
(Amazed
Found
all
Did
to see't,)
Vvas changed,
all
my
senses greet.
24
REGENERA TION
6
The
unthrift
A
And heaven
The
air
was
fleeces;
in spice,
all
Only a
little
fountain lent
The
Of
spent,
cistern full
divers stones,
dull.
The
Hut
first
th'
(pray
mark
!)
as quick as light
My
As strange an
still
desired,
object brouglu.
25
REGENERA TION
9
It
Some
And taking
A
Which
still
broad-eyed
in the ray;
heard
rushing wind,
increased, but
Nowhere
whence
could not
it
stirred,
find.
lO
I
me
turned
To
see
any
if
had made
leaf
My mind
to ease
By knowing, where
It
whisper'd
"Lord," then
't
"Where
said
please".
"on me one
I,
breath,
And
let
me
die before
Cant. cap.
Arise,
North,
4.
ver.
death
17.
my
out.
26
Death
A DIALOGUE
Soul
'Tis a sad land, that in one day
Hath dulled thee thus; when death shall
freeze
Thy
blood to
Tenant
How
ice,
for years,
wilt thou
brook
't?
Body
I
cannot
But
if
all
tell
And something
I '11
Me
Where shadows
shroud.
DEA TH
Soul
'T
so
is
We
custom straight
brought to contempt
blind, but
falls
We
And
And
past,
And
We
And
to crack.
appeared.
thought the day then was not slack.
pleased ourselves with what we
in those crannies light
feared
But thou
Just so it is in death.
Shalt in thy mother's bosom sleep.
Whilst I each minute groan to know
How
Then
shall
we meet
to
met,
'Tis last good-night; our Sun shall never
set.
28
DEA TH
Job, cap.
to
io.
ver.
2t,
22.
death ;
29
Resurrection and
Immortality
Heb. cap.
IO.
VER.
20.
Body
Oft
have
seen,
when
that
renewing
breath,
dead
Creatures a-bed.
Some drowsy silk-worm creep
From that long sleep.
And
in
About her
Until at
last,
silent cell.
full
with the
vital ray.
RESURRECTTON
things!)
Esteemed (vain
of
two
whole
elements
then
think such
providence will
be
Or
that
Soul
And how
we make
of death
A mere
mistake
For no thing can to nothing fall, but still
Incorporates by skill,
And then returns, and from the womb of
things
still pass
Untainted through this mass,
Which doth resolve, produce, and ripen
That
(
B 269
to
it
fall
31
all
RESURRECTION
Nor are those births, which we
Thus suffering see,
Destroyed at
all;
but
when Time's
wave
*'
'
restless
And
the
finds his
house
Unto
And
that spring,
source of
spirits,
where he takes
his
lot.
laid
as'de,)
Shall
with
Thou
Then
I,
that here
saw darkly
in
a glass
And
course of things,
Pierce
all their
32
ways
AND IMMORTALITY
And
as thou saw'st,
a thought could
in
go
To Heaven or Earth below,
To read some star or mineral, and in state
There often sat
So shalt thou then with me,
Both winged and free.
Rove in that mighty and eternal light,
Where no rude
Shall
shade, or night
we shall
dare approach us
;
there
no more
say,
One
Dan.
c.\p.
12.
ver.
thou shalt
13.
the
end
be
for
Judgment
When
And
And
fire shall
rush
roll
brush
When
all
shall
And with
When Thou
shalt spend
Of thunders
And low
Thy
When
sacred store
like
And
Thy
in that heat.
scroll the
vanisli clean
When
space
And from
34
DA V OF JUDGMENT
Summon
When Thou
And
shalt
in the
make the
open
clouds
Thy seat,
air
then
it
To
great,
say,
"What
shall
do?"
me
me now
Prepare, prepare
And
To
feel
let
my
then,
O God
begin
Killing the
Give me,
give
me
crosses here,
And one
DA V OF JUDGMENT
A
living- faith,
a heart of
flesh,
last will
keep the
first
Now
the
end of
therefore sober,
Pet.
4.
two
I 'd
7.
all things is at
and watching
3^
fresh,
be.
hand ;
in prayer.
he you
Religion
My
And
1
God, when
Thy
leaves
walk
f
in those
Spirit doth
still
An angel
groves
fan,
grows
Or
is
there
fed,
Nay Thou
Thyself,
Whirlwinds,
and
my
God,
clouds,
voice,
37
in
fire.
and
the
soft
RELIGION
Speak'st there so much, that I admire
We have no conference in these days.
Or
is
't
as
so,
That now
Though
say,
stay.
The tokens
a spring.
golden mine
and thence doth bring
is
secret,
Then
On
RELIGION
So poisoned, breaks
And
But drunk,
And
forth in
'stead of
many
some dime,
please;
we
have,
Thy
or bring
flock.
Rock
Look down. Great Master
of the feast;
shine.
And
turn once
Cant. cap.
My sister,
4.
ver.
into wine!
12.
and a fountain
39
sealed
tip.
The Search
'T
IS
Bud
The
now
clear
/^
day
see a rose
and
disclose
A
A
A
and
little
dust,
heap
of ashes,
was
a-bed,
To
THE SEARCH
Unto
his sons,
where
often they
And
He must
I
walk
the Garden,
decreed;
is
be found where
He
did bleed.
that set
Balsam of
But,
(For
"Sure then,"
'Midst so
much
THE SEARCH
I
'11
to the wilderness,
and can
Thus was
To
And
Still
spies
out of doors.
Descries
THE SEARCH
The
Though
fair,
Are not
Thy
But got
By mere despair
Of wings.
To rack
old elements,
Or dust;
And say.
Sure here He must
Needs stay,
Is not the way,
Nor
just,
who
studies
this.
Travels
in
none
clouds,
seeks
manna where
is.
Acts, cap.
17.
ver.
27.
28.
Marriage
Isaac's
Gen. cap.
24.
j^
ver. 63.
care,
Though
of ourselves,
is
so
much
out of
date.
Thy
flames
could
not
be
out
religion
was
Rayed into thee like beams into a glass;
Where, as thou grew'st, it multiplied, and
shined
The sacred
But being
decried
for
course,
much.
44
ISAACS MARRIAGE
Had'st ne'er an
thou wert
An
odd,
dull
nor
oath,
compliment?
suitor:
art
New
oaths,
several
plenty.
When
lewd
by
had not
use
lost sense,
Nor
banished
custom
bold-faced
cence
Thou hadst no
inno-
pompous
train,
nor antic
crowd
Of young, gay
Retinue
loud
less,
;
all
was
smooth
here
as
thy
bride.
And calm
like her,
tide.
And
rove
about
mind;
These fetched
all
the
thee,
thee
guardians of thy
home
way
ISAAC'S
MARRIAGE
come
In rolls and
curls,
mincing and
stately
dumb;
in a virgin's native blush and fears,
Fresh as those roses which the day-spring
wears.
O sweet, divine simplicity O grace
Beyond a curled lock, or painted face
A pitcher too she had, nor thought it much
But
To
carry that
to
touch
With which
did
in
mild, chaste
language she
woo
To draw him
drink, and
for
his
camels
too.
it
was time
To
Thy
soul,
forth,
refresh
MARRIAGE
ISAAC'S
Her
vvt-aritd
did
\vlni,'s,
which,
restored,
so
tly
Above the
air,
So
from
Laliai-roi's
'
some
well
spicy
cloud.
Wooed by
the
sun, swells
shroud,
And from her moist
up
womb
be
his
weeps a
tra-
to
grant shower,
Which, scattered
in
each flower
And herb partakes
a thousand
pearls,
having stood
where-
awhile.
And something
cooled
parched and
the
thirsty isle.
herself,
and
blends
all
mixed, she
sends
Up in one cloud, and so returns the skies
That dew they lent, a breathing sacrifice.
1 A
well in the South Country where Jacob dwelt, between Cadesh and Bered; Heb. the well of him that liveth
and seeth me.
( B 269
47
ISAAC'S
Thus
soared
MARRIAGE
thy
who,
soul,
though
father's spirit,
faith
were
to
thee
so, e'er
Time
his
snow could
shed.
must
paint
First a
young
patriarch,
saint.
48
then a married
The
Ah! He
And
while
British
Church
these
is
llrd
here
mists
their
and
shadows hatch,
My
glorious
Doth on those
hills
Head
watch.
Haste, haste,
The
my
Dear!
soldiers here
Or
if
And
Thou
tliink'st
good
to tarry
where Thou
art,
in Thy books,
ravished looks,
Write
My
49
And
The Lamp
'T
dead
is
J0
j^
nij^ht
round
about
Horror
doth creep
And move on
and sleep,
And through the dark
stars
spin
air
nod
fiery
thread,
Such as doth
gild
the lazy
glow-worm's
bed.
But
still
Met
in th.y
Thy
And
Devotion
weep
Still
warm
drop-
THE LAMP
To measure out thy lenj^-th,
know
What stock, and how much
thee
Nor
thou
'dst
time were
left
as
if
now;
As thou
dissolv'st to
They
're
distil,
lie.
When
all
is
spent, thy last and sure
supply
And such is true repentance; every breath
spend in sighs is treasure after death.
Only one point escapes thee; that thy
We
oil
Is
still
fail
But whensoe'er
'm
end, there
I '11
begin.
Mark,
cap.
13.
ver.
35.
at
the
cock-crowing, or
52
in
the
I 'm cast
under clouds, where storms and
tempests blast
This sullied flower,
Robbed of your calm nor can I ever make,
Transplanted thus, one leaf of his t' awake
But every hour
He sleeps and droops; and in this drowsy
Here
state
Leaves
me
my
fate.
Besides
train of lii^hts,
've lost
which
in those
sunshine
days
Were my
sure guides;
stays.
One
Unto my cost,
beam, whose charge
sullen
is
to
dispense
to
my
thousand years
At last Jeshurun's king'
Those famous tables did from Sinai bring.
These swelled my fears,
Guilts, trespasses, and all this inward
I
sojourned thus.
awe
For Sin took strength and vigour from the
Law.
Yet have
plenteous way,
I found
(thanks to that
Holv
One!)
To
cancel
all
that e'er
was
writ in stone.
To
sinners confidence,
life
This makes
me
to the grave.
span
My fathers' journeys, and in one fair step
O'er all their pilgrimage and labours leap.
For God (made Man),
Reduced
th'
made
Of their Red
a spring:
so
wash, they
wade.
Rom. cap.
As by
men
all
5.
ver.
17.
to
men
to
the juslifiratioti of
54
life.
The Shower
'T
was
so;
saw
lake
From her faint
birth.
Lliy
^27
That drowsy
bosom breathed
thee, the
disease
Of
mistake.
2
Wiien
all
quick
else stray.
Yet
Of
could weep
55
THE SHOWER
O'er
my
asleep,
My
Perhaps at last,
Some such showers past.
God would give a sunshhie after
S6
rain.
j^
Distraction
am
JS^
heap
Is all dispersed
and
clicap
Hadst Thou
Made me a star,
The beams
a pearl, or a rainbow,
then had shot
I
find
But now
myself the less the more
The world
Is full of voices;
By each
Knows
Man
is
called,
he answers
grow.
and hurled
all,
Hence, still
Fresh dotage tempts, or old
usurps his
will.
my
wings, when
cofFin'd in
And saved
sin,
freely
Thou
DISTRACTION
I
1
fear
Or
tliat
Thy
store
was
grieve,
me
O, yes!
my God
less;
didst bless
Thou
that
hast
made
such.
grieve?
I
thou know'st
do;
come, and
relieve,
left
rise
and dim
my
light.
sight
58
die.
The Pursuit
J^
J0^
Lord
The
lost
state untired,
left
Thy mercy
For when
all
Then
Ah
Lord
it
is
too;
fails
this
the husk,
to
must
bring to
bliss,
do.
will that
be,
To
us sick,
take Thee
take
that
59
Mount
J^
of Olives
on whose
Sweet, sacred hill
My Saviour sat, shall I allow
!
fair
brow
Languag-e to love
some shade or grove,
Neglecting thee? such ill-placed wit.
Conceit, or call it what you please,
And
Idolise
Is the brain's
And mere
fit,
disease.
The sheep
Yet
if
They
poets
mind thee
well.
60
hill,
MOUNT OF
OLIVES
And fountain
too
He wept
once,
walked whole
to
do;
nij^hts
on
thee
Was
sufferings ended,)
glory-
attended.
Being
Is
And what we
Unsearchable, now with
He doth comprise
When He did stay
;
And
Was
sin,
all
tliink
oni-
wink
but in this
to bear our
this hill
6i
air,
ill
The Incarnation
and Passion
Lord! when Thou didst Thyself undress,
Laying- by Thy robes of glory,
To make us more, Thou wouldsl be less,
And becam'st a woeful story.
To put on
And clothe
Ah,
my
dear Lord
Heaven
in a shell
To
B 269
63
The
Call
my
Come,
heart!
^
come,
my
head.
and tears
'Tis now, since you have lain thus dead,
In sighs,
Some twenty
years.
Awake, awake,
Who
never
Do
How many
Have
left
us,
wliik^
With
What
we
sands
careless sate
folded hands;
stock of nights,
Of days, and
years,
In silent flights
How
ill
64
TIIK CALL
3
What
sins
them
all
Until
glass with tears you fill
That done, we shall be safe and good:
Those beasts were clean that chewed the
The
cud.
65
Thou That
Know'st For
I
Whom
i^
Mourn
for
Of
As
all
easily
whom
mourn,
tears appear,
till
he return
Thou
might'st prevent.
fair
supply of years.
't
was
my
To
Thy hand
primrose out,
That, by Thy early choice forewarned,
My soul might look about.
O what a vanity is man
How like the eye's quick wink
His cottage fails, whose narrow span
Begins even at the brink
Nine montlis Thy hands are fashioning us,
E'er
cull this
alas
avight discuss
THOU THAT
Yet have
A
A
known Thy
The
best of us excel.
slightest things,
feather, or a shell.
stick, or rod,
Yea,
KNOW ST
fair-compacted frame,
And
And
close Eternity.
Whose
a mother.
many
sons,
Each
is
67
THOU THAT
KNOW ST
My
see
my
is
great.
And
gain
g'roan,
only
Thou
must
canst do
entreat,
it.
me,
like
68
Vanity of Spirit
J^
left
my
cell,
and lay
Where a
shrill
day.
I
Who
Who
What
1
her store
Broke up
some
seals,
touched before
rifled quite;
Through
all
head.
came
the creatures,
at last
To
Here of
this
mighty spring
found some
drills,
th'
Eternal Hills.
VANITY OF SPIRIT
Weak beams and
fires
flashed to
my sight,
piece of
much
antiquity.
With hieroglyphics
And broken
I
quite dismembered,
letters scarce
remembered.
about
T' unite those pieces, hoping to find out
The mystery but this near done,
That little light I had was gone.
;
grieved me much.
" Since in these veils
It
May
Who
At
my
last,
said
I,
eclipsed eye
70
The Retreat
Happy
Shined
My
Or had
THE RETREAT
From whence th' enlightened spirit sees
That shady City of palm-trees.
But ah my soul with too much stay
Is drunk, and staggers in the way
!
Some men
But
And when
In that state
came, return.
72
Come, Come!
do I Here?
What
is
here?
is
gone,
grown a dozen year,
Since he
one.
sum:
off the
to be true,)
Days are my
fears.
Or beam
But straight
think,
stir.
pass by.
Thy hand
is
though
nigh.
Come, come
Strike these lips dumb:
This restless breath.
That
soils
Thy name.
far,
WHAT DO
HERE?
Which ne'er
Come, come
breeds more.
To wake
in
74
Thee.
Midnight
When
to
my
eyes,
Thine host of
The
spies,
watches,
do survey
Each busy ray.
With
What
emanations.
Quick
And
brii,Hit
vibrations,
stirs
are there!
Thy
Are a
fiery-liquid light.
sight.
MIDNIGHT
Come
And
m} God
then,
Shine on
this blood
beam
And Thou shah see,
water, in one
Kindled by Thee,
Both liquors burn and stream.
Active brightness,
And
celestial flows,
On
that water
Which Thy
MaTTH.
/
i?ideed baptize
Spirit
cap.
blows
3.
VER.
you with
II.
76
Content
Peace, peace!
But
I
know
'l
shelter in,
is
slave
To no such
piece.
am
gone,
shall
was brave;
When
I
no wardrobes leave
To
But what
friend or son,
their
And mourn
to see the
full,
wool
fine,
Had mourned
Why
CONTENT
Death
78
Joy of
my
Life
Me
while Left
-^
Here!
Joy of
my
while
lifr
And
How
in thy
slill
left
my
me
here!
love!
Me from above
A life well led
This truth commends;
With quick or dead
It
never ends.
The road
foul
Six
niijlit
right,
may go wrong.
One twinkling
Shot
o'er
May
clear
some
ray.
cloud,
much way,
B 269
79
MY
JOY OF
LIFE
As smooth as glass
But these all night,
Like candles, shed
Their beams, and light
Us
into bed.
They
are,
Seen as we go
They are
We
A
travel to.
swordlike gleam
Kept
man
for sin
80
beam
in.
The Storm
and
kiK)vv
my
And
blood
not a sea,
his,
Willi the
But when
them
fair
And
let
me
my mind
8i
THE STORM
111
A
So
spirit-wind
shall that
storm purge
this recluse
made foul,
And wind and water, to Thy use.
Both wash and wing my soul.
Which
sinful ease
82
The Morningwatch
sweetness!
infinite
Joys!
with
what
flowers
And
shoots of K^ory
my
soul breaks
and
buds
All the
long hours
spirits all
my
earth!
hark!
in
what
rings
Adore
In
sacred
83
The world
And vocal
Whose echo
in tune,
spirit-voice,
joys,
is
Heaven's
bliss.
me
climb
When I lie down The pious soul by night
whose beams,
Is like a clouded star,
let
though said
To shed
their light
Under some
cloud,
like
ashes, hide
My lamp
and
life,
84
The Evening-
watch
A DIALOGUE
Body.
but, when
I go to sleep
Farewell
The day-star springs, 1 '11 wake again.
;
Sold.
Go, sleep
in
Unnumbered
Is
frame
but one
peace; and
thy dust,
in
dram, and
when thou
when all
liest
this
descriest
want a name,
man's
Who
thee^
and
betrayed
ne'er
trust.
Body.
Amen
How many
we two
stray,
till
day;V
Soul.
Ah
go
Heaven
Is
thou Vt
a plain watch,
winds
All ages up
weak
and,
and
without
sleepy.
figures,
Who
He
fills
it
of
Is
thy
Time
first
breath,
prime
86
and
man's eternal
Silence and
Stealth of Days!
Silence
and
j^
'T
stealth of days!
is
now,
my
did defeat
soul to see
to
me
SILENCE
That, dark and dead, sleeps in its known
And common urn
But those, fled to their Maker's throne,
;
could
And now
Must be thy
Yet
All things
And
brother.
Whose
light
see;
88
be
Blest
God
the
J^
/^
Church-Service
of
harmony
and
love
Whose
Make
restless
moans
O how
in
Thy
this
quire
of
souls
stand,
scatter quite.
And
put to niiiht,
But
for
Thy hand
Those
Thy might
alone doth tame
and knit my frame;
blasts,
89
CHURCH-SER VICE
3
dust,
and
all
of
me
Jointly agree
To
And
hi
cry to
Thee
this music,
Sealed and
Present,
The echo
My
sighs,
Thy martyrs'
made good,
by
God,
of these stones
and groans
90
blood
O Thou
And
When
J^
j^
Burial
am
O
Thou
then,
great Preserver of
all
It
is,
in
men,
in!
And
in
this cot,
All tihh
Didst with
and
spot.
Thy
91
servant inn.
BURIAL
3
And nothing
Thou
I hourly see,
Drive Thee from me;
art the same, faithful and just,
In
life
Though
can,
or dust.
then, thus crumbed,
stray
and wastes
Beyond all eyes,
Yet Thy love spies
That change, and knows Thy
claj'.
In blasts,
Or
exhalations,
then, there
tossed.
Can
be lost?
Rom. cap.
And
8.
ver.
23.
have the first-fruits of the Spirit, eveti -we ourgroan within ourselves, ivaiting for the
adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
selves
92
-^
J^
Cheerfulness
Make
breath sustains
my
wing!
move
shine and
mere pleasure is
And hap what will,
Thou be in 't, 't is welcome btill.
Affliction thus
If
Thou dost
And freely
Ah! what
shall
thus lend,
spend,
I
that
were
all
soul
that
Thou
CHEERFULNESS
or
Then would
rvly
And
drown
single one
to
Thy
praise
consort raise
Of hallelujahs here below.
94
pure heart!
Sure, there's
/^
J^
2.
Tie of Bodies!
rust,
And man
is
fled.
line conspire,
unto
the
and sense
unite;
East,
some
and
fowls thence
Watch
false,
delights
Tell us the world
is
brave.
B 269
95
K.
short
For
But
'tis
will
be
my own
death's-head
and
though
The
flatterer
say
live.
Be sure not
to believe.
96
Peace
My
stars,
Where
in
a manger
in
To
If
files.
97
The Passion
O my
Chief Good!
What
In
Whom my
Thou,
soul loves
and
VV^hose juice so
I
But Thy
as wine,
feel
fair
branches
How
To
be
felt
w^ert
Thou
my
feast!
98
as blood,
pressed
fears!
THE PASSION
What
did
drown Thee!
How
one path
full wrath
Of Thy great Father
in
Did the
Crowd and
Doubling Thy
own Thee!
gather,
griefs,
How
Of all our
And death
To wrench and
How
sins,
unite
Thy
rack
pale
blessed limbs!
and bloody
How
With every
How
stroke!
How
didst
Thou
cry.
die to
blessed
Thai
Lamb;
took'st
99
my
sin,
spirit!
THE PASSION
That
How
shall
I
my
took'st
Thy
dust
would
shame,
Thy
praises sing!
were
My
heart, or eye,
Teaching
my
In smiles
and
To weep,
strife
to sing,
years
Thy
lOO
tears
death,
my
life.
J^
j^
Sense
Rom.
cap.
8.
ver. 19
And burn
looks.
thy books!
2
would
Or
were a stone, or
Or some
To flow,
Then should 1
All
tree,
flower by pedigree,
poor highway herb, or spring
or bird to sing!
one sure state,)
(tied to
day expect
my
date.
AND DO THEY
But
SO?
Sometimes
sit
An hour
Thy
Some
rise to
And cannot
quit the
womb.
let
not
me
do
less! shall
Watch, while
Thee,
they
sleep or play?
Shall
for
My
J^
The Relapse
Thou!
art
had
slipped
Ahnost to Hell,
And, on the verge of that dark, dreadful
pit
O Thy
But
love!
Thy
almighty
my
soul,
their fury,
when
That saved
And checked
yell;
rich,
love,
saw them
move,
my
sole
these
ways,
This hideous path,
And
will
delays:
lamp
Thy
darling
Spirit feeds;
conscience
full
fears,
No
of
stabs
and
THE RELAPSE
Sullen and sad
eclipses,
cloudy spheres,
(a price too
dear,)
My
lily-shades,
calm streams,
Joys
full
and
true,
104
have considered
A
Is
'^
The Resolve
it;
and
find
longer stay
To mind
One
path,
and stray
Cannot be
When
That
If
love;
come home.
move?
Tell youth
rot,
Home
Be
with
tlic
light;
shadows
.\nd span up night.
stretch,
An
ancient
way
is
THE RESOLVE
and happiness,
May;
And
fresh as
Hath got
the prize.
io6
The Match
I
Dear
friend!
whose
My
fierce,
still
blood.
heaves and
inclines.
And claim
Here
their share,
n
Accept, dread Lord, the poor oblation;
It is but poor;
And
save
me
me
life.
from
all
107
inward
strife!
THE MATCH
Two
lives
my
gracious
Lord,
The
And
let
me
To Thee
life,
endless
still
mind
next world
that in this\
my
therefore
in the
is,
thoughts,
words,
actions
I
Thy
Settle
do resign;
my
not mine.
house, and shut out all distrac-
tions
My
heart,
Lord Jesu
head
O
O
Thou
didst
in
bow Thy
it;
blessed
Upon a tree,
do as much, now unto me!
and
dead
hear,
ileal
Thy
All lusts in
Who
only wish
servant!
Lord, strike
me.
life
to serve
Thee!
quick.
io8
Rules and
Lessons
When
first
leave
To do
The
spirit's duty.
heave
Unto
their
God,
flowers
as
do
the
to
sun.
Give
Him
ihy
thoughts then
first
so
Him company
day,
all
and
in
Him
sleep.
Yet never
Dawn
Prayer should
set, awful
There are
us.
not good
After sun-rising; far-day sullies flowers.
Rise
to
glut.
And Heaven's
world's
is
gate
shut.
109
opens
when
this
note the
husii
There
not
's
a spring,
Or
leaf
but
hath
his
Each bush
And oak doth know
moniing"-hynin.
Canst thou
AIM.
not sing?
leave thy cares, and
follies!
go
this
way;
And thou
shine.
Pour
oil
weep
for thy
sin;
Then journey
on,
to
Heaven.
the
first
world's
youth,
truth
Is styled their
"hidden food".
no
When
world
the
's
up,
abroad,
Keep thou thy temper; mix not with each
clay;
Dispatch necessities;
life
hath a load
Which must
Be God's
alone,
part.
Through
all
thy
actions,
counsels,
and
discoiirse,
just
ne'er
go
about.
Wrong
stick;
That gain
is
dreadful,
which
makes
spirits sick.
To
If priest
thy ground.
(
B 269
III
be sound.
The
and man?
Seek not the same steps with the crowd;
stick thou
To
thy sure
Is
Outruns the
earth,
and
lines the
utmost
pole.
To all
Make
come,
If trials
this
will
make good
thy
part.
For honesty
It
is
the
of flowers.
Which
thrives in storms,
and smells
best
after showers.
Seal
Hi
in
rajj^s
mit^hty
prince
relieve,
Who, when
can fence
't,
a curse.
Thou
Dash
O smother
viperous
thought
some
are
swords.
Unbitted tong'ues arc in their penance
double
They
shame
their
syllables
owners,
and
the
hearers trouble.
it,
That voids
but
filth
and stench.
Hast
thou no prize
Who
makes
stifle
it.
must be
at
least
If not
a very
devil,
113
friend,
to
if
he be such indeed;
his longings, and
quench
thy thirst
x^llow your joys Religion
And bring
at
the
first.
Who
But shuts
all
To
All
thou hast.
Observe God in His works; here fountains
flow,
Above
are
restless
motions,
running
lights,
When
seasons
change, then
lay
before
thine eyes
and ice.
Calms, tempests,
His means;
light,
and darkness, by
each
To meals when
Him
take what
may
the praise
thee
suffice,
And then be
Who
A
A
thankful;
Under
man
Whose
rise,
height,
Thou
and descent,
art the
is
but
a span.
Yet, set as he doth, and 't
Thy beams home with
lamp, buy
oil,
lis
is
well.
thee:
Have
trim
all
thy
who
is
thus dressed,
the Fall
Man
is
and
a summer's day;
whose youth
fire
When
night comes,
way
'Twixt Heaven and
list
thy deeds
make
plain the
thee; block
it
not with
delays
But perfect
all
then
say
more strung on my
score up for
J03'
the bad,
well scanned.
Wash
off
hand.
Thy accounts
fear
Beint;' laid,
thy eyes
Up
winij'
some
In
when
the day
shall rise.
And thou
And
God
Bush, where
die; that
is,
shall
not burn.
When
thy nap
's
one beam
fire,
i'
unrake
dark
th'
outvies
Two
Of
in the day
then from the damps and
ache
night shut up thy leaves; be chaste;
;
God pries
Through thickest nights; though then
the sun be far,
Do
rise
star.
Briefly,
unto
"
Do
as
thou would'st
be done
",
life;
this do,
And
live;
who
doth
not
thus,
hath
lost
Heaven's way.
lose it not!
those lights
For
chains
nights ?
of
look up.
wilt
change
darkness
and
eternal
ii8
Sure,
was
it
Corruption
so.
.Man
in
those
early
days
He
Had some
He saw Heaven
glimpse of his
o'er his head,
birth.
and knew
from whence
He came, condemned, hither,
And, as first Love draws strongest, so
from hence
His mind sure progressed thither.
Things here were strange unto him sweat
.
and
till;
All
Nor
was a thoin
did those
last,
or
weed
still
As soon as they
They seemed
did seed
to quarrel with
him
for that
act,
That
He drew
fell
the curse
cracked
his
fall.
CORRUPTION
This made him long- for home, as loth
to sta}'
He
sighed
say
"Ah!
what
foes
and would
Eden,
for
bright
often
were
days
those!"
him
cold unto
each
for
day
The
Afforded
valley,
or the
and
mountain
Paradise lay
In some green shade or fountain.
Angels lay lieger here; each bush, and
visits,
still
cell,
Walk
well.
And he was
art
man
Sits
He
raves,
down, and
and swears
freezeth on
to stir nor
fire,
nor
fan,
Thy
bow
see
triumphs
below
The
still,
centre,
in the
and
and
120
Thy
cloud;
man
is
his shroud.
sunk
CORRUPTION
All
's
in
ness
And
But hark
thick dark-
lies
hatclieth o'er
wlial
trumpet
Thy
's
people
that,
what angel
cries
"Arise! thrust
in
121
Thv
sickle!"
Holy Scriptures
Welcome, dear book,
Of spirits
Thou art
The
Heaven
Life's
soul's joy
and food
feast
extracted
lies in thee.
less nest
Where
souls
ai'e
The Word
that
Each
in
Of my
in characters,
line in thee
in
God
in the voice.
my
hard heart
Then would
plead
groans
Lord's penning, and by sweetest art
upon Himself, the Law, and
Return
Stones.
j^
Unprofitableness
How
rich,
how
Lord,
j^
fresh
Thy
visits
are!
'T
now my
and mud
through me, and
was but
less
just
hung,
Each snarling
blast shot
did shear
Their youth and beauty
nipped and wrung
Th-eir spiciness
cold
showers
and blood;
in one sweet glance
flourish,
and once
more
I
smell
day
Wear
in
my bosom
sun
full
such
store
But, ah,
of this?
What one
let
fall
UNPROFITA BLENESS
To
Thus Thou
dress,
all
The odour
bequeath.
124
Christ's Nativity
j^
js^
Awake awake
The sun doth shake
!
A consort make
Awake awake
!
should
would
Above
this inn
And
Then
star.
far
rod of sin
either star or bird should be
Shining or singing
still
125
to
Thee.
rise
CHRIST'S NATIVITY
4
would I
Fit rooms
iiad
for
my
ill
Thee
best part
or that
my
heart
Were so clean as
Thy manger was
am
But
Yet,
if
all
Thou
filth,
wilt,
and obscene;
clean.
Sweet Jesu
Let no more
This leper haunt and soil Thy door!
Cure him, ease him,
will then.
release
him
How
to man!
If here
sinner doth amend.
Straight there is joy, and every sphere
In music doth contend.
kind
is
Heaven
One
And
shall
CHRIST S
Can
A\ TIVIT\
'
Alas,
B 269
127
The Check
^^
Peace, peace
j^
heart.
In the
same
livery dressed,
Lies tame as
When
all
the rest;
Seeks there
But finding none,
some
symmetry.
for
shall
wind.
Or
As he that
in the
The hideous
Sleeps
not,
but
night,
shaking
neglects,
128
off
sloth
and
THE CHECK
Works with
And
Thy glimpse
of light:
Take
given
creatures,
be
Tliy youth's companions.
tlieir
leave,
and
die;
birds,
beasts,
each tree
Who
can
Make
Turning
to
their mists to
Whose power
As
day
doth so excel
to inake clay
spirit,
THE CHECK
4
Hark, how He
what voice
He
doth
invite
thee!
with
in these
thy
da3-s
Thou knew'st
Of
Of
But thou
protestation.
130
thy
Disorder
and Frailty
When
Thou
first
And womb
My
didst even
brutish soul,
and
to
Thy
slave
tossed
By winds, and
J
with
frost,
bit
All the
Yet, sure,
my God
Alas,
Thy
love
Thee most.
I^ove
Of
clay
and
frailty
Touched by Thy
Too
is
my
fire
my
cell
well.
And
grow
Thy
stars
Each
and spangled
hall,
doth taste
fly
My
sometimes a shower
Beats them quite off; and in an hour
Not one poor shoot,
But the bare root,
Hid underground, survives the fall.
yielding leaves
Alas, frail
weed
Thus
up
Pine,
And, after
all
and
retire
my
height of flames,
Leaving
On my
Until
me dead
first
bed.
ascends.
Poor, falling star!
132
Up
Of
fire;
tire
stars,
And
foolish
Of forward
my
bill
and kill
That seed, which Thou
In me didst sow;
But dress, and water with Thy grace,
Together with the seed, the place;
And, for His sake
sins,
Who
His
life
for
My
died to stake
mine, tune to Thy will
heart,
my
HOSEA, CAP.
verse.
6.
VER.
4.
it
goeth
aii'ay.
133
J^
Verse
Idle
My
We
Blind, desperate
To
That
fits,
that study
gild
how
shame;
The
Lust
The
Let
and bowls
it
suffice
my warmer
days
Or
roses with
my
134
yew.
IDLE VERSE
Go, go, seek out some greener thingIt snows and frcezeth here;
Let nightingales attend the Spring
Winter
is
all
piy year.
135
Son-Days
j^
some shoots
The next
this
day
Eternity in time;
We
to seek
climb above
Man
the rich,
And
full
flight
The
pulleys
bower
Paradise;
The
God's
walking
SON-DA VS
The
creature's Jubilee;
dust
liills
of
myrrh
The
Church's
love-feasts
Time's
pre-
rogative,
And
interest
hive.
And home
The milky way chalked
of rest.
clue
full
and,
story,
glory.
137
Repentance
Thou
Lord, since
That sacred
Thy
Spirit, plant,
With
My
j^
ray,
forward
flesh
crept
on,
and
subtly
stole
checking the
health
(And
those but
seldom too,) were
caught.
Thy promises but empty words
Which none but children heard, or
taught.
This I believed and though a friend
:
Came oft
from
far,
my end,
mv foe.
wholly listened to
13S
REPENTANCE
Wherefore, pierced through with
grief,
my
sad.
to
Thee;
My
God, accept of
It
(Touched
with
was
my
confession
last day,
the
my own
of
guilt
way,)
I
sat alone,
Through
all
and taking up
The
blades of grass
Thy
my
store,
score.
creatures feed-
ing;
The
seeding;
The
The
dust, of
stone.'',
which
much
am
a part
than
my
softer
heart;
light;
All that
I
have signature or
summoned
lite
REPENTANCE
And
lest I
And no more
his sins
remember;
Light
to
my
Cut me not
soul, that
oft"
for
my
it
may
live;
transgressions,
Whose
bright.
140
REPENTANCE
1
am
Growing
all
am
let
o'ernight,
this
but
Thy
finite.
He
is
infinite.
justice then in
merits
mine
141
Him
confine;
The
Burial
jq^
of an Infant
whose blossom-life
Did only look about, and fall,
Wearied out in a harmless strife
Of tears, and milk, the food of all
Blest infant bud,
sin.
Lapped
in the
142
Faith
JS^
and
Bright
blest
beam
whose strong
projection,
Equal to all,
Reacheth as well things of dejection;
As th' high and tall
How hath my God by raying thee
Enlarged His Spouse,
And
All
ol
a private family
may
Can
be
interdict us
noise
A
Where
stars
glorious night,
light
shade,
143
and
FAITH
That scene was changed, and a new dress
Left for us here
became
Veils
useless, altars
fell,
smoking die
that sacred pomp, and
Of things did fly.
Fires
And
all
Then
did
He
shine forth.
And
Were
Whose
sad
fall,
bitter fights
And
And
shell
as
i'
th'
cloudy
rites
And my most
144
The Dawning
Ah! what time
j^
j^
wilt
"The Bridegroom
Shall
When
Or
it
in
coming!"
fill
the sky?
will
Thy
all-surprising light
Break
When
's
at midnight,
it
is
now
best chime;
The pursy
145
THE DAWNING
O
at
Unknown
to us, the
And, with
Thy
So
let
me
all
my
busy age
flow.
my
love,
146
Admission
How
when
sin
got
when my slock
lay
shrill
J^
head
And
To
all
brass and
my
bowels turned
iron;
dead
And
As
Chide
No
windows
quiet
Thou have
couldst
Thou wink,
And let Thy
But ere
my
beats,
Thine ears;
in
beg-gar
nor didsi
lie,
what low
rate,
gate,
Bowels of love
at
147
ADMISSION
3
We
Thy
Thou
are
infants,
if
We
Us double
pa)-.
my
Hear now a
flood that
My
drowns
tears alone,
flood,
both, tears
Saviour's blood.
143
and groans;
j^
Praise
Kin^
of comforts
King- of
life
rife,
Not a nook
in all
But Thou
my
fill'st
breast
it;
kill'st
And
will praise
as
I
Thou
Day and
1
and length,
Thee;
will bless
And my
utmost strength
Thee,
giv'st line
will raise
rest,
my
Wherefore with
I
my
it;
soul in
will
dress
Thee
new array
Thee;
PRAISE
In
Thy word,
I
will rest
as
If
Heaven,
in
me
And Thy
my
all
They
shall please
They
will ease
life
me,
And Thy bloody wounds and
will
And my
I
daily breath
measure,
life
hid in
Thy death
will treasure.
Though
And
canst no whit
Access admit
From dust and dulness
Tliy
commands
strife,
me
PRAISE
dread Lord,
Thy board
Thy wretch comes begging,
He hath a flower,
Or, to his power.
Some such poor offering;
If then,
When
to
When Thou
Thy beggar
And
filled
his
hast
made
glad,
bosom.
151
O Thou
J^
Dressing
and whitened
soul
That
feed'st
among
the
lilies,
the day
till
touch with
Break, and the shaaows flee
one coal
My frozen heart and with Thy secret key
!
Open my
desolate
rooms
my gloomy
breast
With Thy
These
clear
dark
fire refine,
confusions
burning
that
to dust
within
me
nest,
And
soil
sinful rust.
But even
win;
in
Give to
Thy
mystical
communion,
152
still
and
DRESSING
may
That, absent, he
Live, die,
and
s?e,
with Thee;
rise
May make
bid,
faith
let
make
good.
Bread
Thy
for
body, and
wine
for
Thy
blood.
Two
flowers that
pity,
love.
my God
Thy grace.
brightness of Thy face;
That never like a beast
I take Thy sacred feast,
the dread mysteries of Thy blessed blood
Give me,
Or
Use with
like
custom as
153
my
Icilchen food.
DRESSING
Some sit to Thee, and eat
Thy body as their common meat
let
not
Poor dust
Tlien kneel,
me
do so
siiould
my
soul
lie
still
low;
bow;
If saints
and angels
fall
thou.
IS4
j^
Easter-day
JS^
low,
Whose
Who
never
feel'st
damps
invade,
thy brow,
But
sitt'st
Awake awake
!
And
to thee.
Where
would usurp
this
day;
thy verse?
arise
thine
eyes.
Thy inward
eyes;
His blood
will
cure
thy mind.
Whose
spittle
only
blind.
xSS
could
restore
the
Easter
Hymn
j^
j^
Youth now,
Seeks
full
of pious duty.
beauty
156
The Holy
Communion
feast!
welcome
life!
That
llie-y
rude.
were by Thee,
And
Spirits without
Thee
And blackness
On
sits
die,
When
Thy
last breath,
And now by
After
ties,
Thy
blood
(Our sovereign good)
Had
Was
't
Thou hadst
paid
the price,
And given
When we
us eyes
take
Us by the hand.
And keep us still awake,
When we would sleep,
Or from Tliee creep,
Who
of
And keep
Who
Rose of Sharon
Of
How
art
Become both
us so.
wrous^ht
!
Thy woe?
the Lily
the Valley!
flock to keep.
and Shepherd
to
sheep
B269)
159
Thy
Psalm
Up
to those bright
Whence
I
J^
j^
121
my
flows
look,
He
The
God
glorious
He
my
is
sole stay,
me
keeps
Doth
And
my
Neither shall
He
is
beloved;
is
invade.
all
me
shield,
Unto my very
He
is
Now
my
pillar
and
and
my
for evermore.
i6o
cloud
Peace!
.^
J^
Affliction
peace!
il
is
not so.
Thou
dost
miscall
that
change
that
God
And by a
frosts
and
showers
Clierish
Thou wouldst
disperse.
And
i6i
AFFLICTION
To check
man
the
famous
fan.
Purging the
Were all
we
All
tloor
which chaff
disturbs.
not a
tree
Would make
Beauty consists
Which is
The settled
us bowers.
in colours
is
dull,
rest
disclose.
game;
Or hath a name,
But waits upon this wheel;
Kingdoms too have their physic, and
steel
Making
162
for
The Tempest
How
man
is
parcelled out
him
Shows
how
every hour
something
or
himself,
should see
This late, long; heat
.^
may
he
his instruction
be;
in
them than a
shower.
When
Her
And
infants die,
Sigh
to the sky,
So
in
And
Her
faint requests,
do so
read
to
expense
163
that he
him
would hear
all
the
vast
THE TEMPEST
In the creation shed, and slaved to sense,
Makes up but
and
ear.
Sure,
Of
this
Hid
in these
his heart,
And
each element.
laid surprises in
that
waters
fall,
Chide and
up;
fly
mists of corruptest
foam
Quit their
first
herbs, flowers,
upwards
Strive
trees,
all
still,
way home.
How
do
they cast
off
grossness?
only
earth
And
man,
like
Issachar,
in
loads
delight;
Water's refined
Fire to
all
three, ^ but
man
hath no such
mirth.
in the root with earth do most
comply.
Their leaves with %vater and humidity,
Plants
164
THE TEMPEST
The
flowers
air
to
di-a\v
and
near
subtlety^
fire
sky.
All
ascents
set
but
man,
Though
knows
he
more of
his
these,
and
hath
own,
alas
what
can
These new
drown ?
discoveries
do,
except
they
ball,
And, lessening
Yet hugs ho
still,
still
grow up
his dirt
in\isibly:
the
stuff he
wears.
And
painted
trimming, takes down
both his ej-es
Heaven hath less beauty th;ui the dust
he spies.
And money better music than the spheres.
165
THE TEMPEST
he knows
it;
what?
shall straw
And
temper
bulrush-fetters
his
short
hour?
Must he nor
sip,
a flower
To crown
his
his temples?
shall
dreams be
law?
foolish
man
how
sight?
How
is
it
grown
Is
a stone?
flesh no softness now? mid-day no
Hath
light?
fire
Without a
Thy
gift
steel,
let
Thy power
dust
x66
clear
this flint to
Who
j^
j^
Retirement
Above
tlie
sits,
morning-star,
Let
it
suffice,
And
Have had
their
Press not to be
Still
thy
own
I
foe
and Mine;
And would
My
day
for to this
did delay.
fall.
My unseen
link.
RETIREMENT
know
thee well
for
have framed,
Of
Leads
to that
way.
a resolved retreat.
follies
Now
As
In
it
there above
My name
And
make
all
In perfumes or array;
Dust
with dust.
lies
And hath
The
but just
clay.
faithful school,
In heraldry
1
68
see,
RETIREMENT
Of stones and speechless earth,
Thy true descent
Where dead men preach, who can tun
feasts
and mirth
To
fill
Is fast asleep:
Up
then,
"I
and keep
My
will."
169
doors.
Dost hear?
Love and
-.
Discipline
Since in a land not barren still,
(Because Thou dost Thy grace distil,)
My
lot is
fallen,
blessed be
Thy
will!
blessed
Thy
frost,
The Pilgrimage
As
travellers,
And in
The past
when
day's accidents do
"Thus we saw
With,
^
sum
and thus
there,
here";
So for
And,
Expect
Thai
1
this night
full
still
1
linger here.
may
get
me up and
go.
long,
Is all the
note within
my
bush.
THE PILGRIMAGE
I
mourn and
And though Thou
So do
hangdost
my head
me fuhiess
give,
feed
me
Have
yet
then
and since I may
more days, more nights to count,
!
And
VER.
13.
172
And
did tliaw
Thy
people's hearts,
were
And
when
Terror, and
How
Thy weeds
all
rich,
did.
might;
Thou
didst
wear,)
Whispered
obedience,
and
their
wind.
heads
inclined.
We
climb up
clouds,
would not so
the
way
(wliich
full
all
comfort brings,)
Thy Dove
too bears us on
man
all Thy
Yet, since
And
after
is
a very brute.
Thou
gav'st
when
plant in
one more;
Gospel and Thy Law;
Both faith and awe;
So twist them
1
may
this
me Thy
in
my
Thy
fear!
would
Let
me
bless;
my
food,
shall
limbs again
fear,
John, cap.
If ve love Me, keep
B 269
14.
My
175
ver.
15.
commandments.
The World
saw
ni,<^ht,
it
light,
was bright;
it,
Time,
in
hours,
days, years,
his flights,
Upon a
pour
flower.
The
with
there
THE WORLD
He did nor stay, nor go;
Coiidtinning thoughts, hke sad eclipses,
scowl
Upon
And
his soul.
But one
did see
That
Churches and
policy:
VV^^re
It
he
Drank them as
free.
The
fearful
Sat pining
his
life
ihine,
did
scarce
trust
In fear of thieves.
frantic as
him-
self,
his pelf;
THE WORLD
The downright
epicure placed
Heaven
in
sense,
And scorned
While
pretence;
Said
The weaker
wide excess,
little less;
wares en-
slave.
Who
And
Their victory.
4
all this
while did
vi'eep
and
sing.
And
"O
sing,
night
Before true light
in grots and caves, and hate the
day
Because it shows the way;
The way, which from this dead and dark
abode
Leads up to God;
A way where you might tread the sun,
and be
More bright than he!"
But, as I did their madness so discuss.
One whispered thus,
To
live
178
THE WORLD
Ring
This
the
Bridegroom did
for
none
provide,
But
John
All
for
His Bride.
2.
ver.
16,
And
79
life, is
for ever.
17.
of the Jlesh,
Oj
not
lusts
God abideth
The Mutiny
Weary
of this
^^
same
clay
and straw,
laid
Me down
to
and casting
breathe,
in
my
yet
to
heart
The
after-burthens
and
griefs
come,
So shook
My
The
hea\-y
my
breast,
sum
that,
and sore
sick
dismayed.
thoughts, like water which some stone
doth start.
Unto
bounds,
They murmured
sore; but
I,
who
felt
them
boil.
Turning
to
to
tire
grounds
And
must be (said
task and destiny,
thirsty brick
My
80
I,)
THE MUTINY
me
Let
i'liy
foes,
force
are built
unto the
height,
May
prove
That Babel-weight
Thy glory and their shame
so
close
And
knit
me
to
in this
vale
Of
sin
May
And author
of
my
That
And
show me home,
foam
which up and down doth
faith; so
all
frothy noise,
this
fly.
May
find
seal
ness,
sea, or sands,
Thou,
(As
THE MUTINY
Though
in this desert
me
redress
That no decay
shall touch
me;
be pleased
give
Of all
Nor
Both
live
and
Revel, cap.
2.
die
Thy
ver.
17.
child.
it.
The
Constellation
j0^
j^
noise
Whose
Willi
Now
Some
nights
gladsome
East,
Silence,
No
sleep,
wiiii
man
Still
grass,
his glass.
Who
kneels, or sighs a
some nights
you, and peep
Perhaps
When
it
Dares know
life,
he'll
is
mad.
watch
with
effects,
before.
When
th'
much
herb he treads
more.
knows much,
Who
calls
you by
your names.
THE CONSTELLATION
But
here,
commissioned by a hIacU
self-
will,
The sons
The
the father
kill,
and would
heal
The wounds
Then
and
tears
upon Thy
book.
Where
And,
like
the
dragon's voice.
Seem mild, but are known by their noise.
Yet O,
for
All
we may
Be more and more
Settle,
and
fix
in love
with day
move
In order, peace, and love;
may
b}-
Thy whole
crea-
tion,
nation!
to Th)-
dress,
And
men may
see
And
say,
"Where God
i86
is,
all
agree".
The Shepherds
Sweet,
harmless
-C^
llve[rjs
on whose holy
leisure
Whose
springs
Were
How
patriarchs, saints,
happened
You
only
it
saw
and kings;
swains
Were
When
received
the
Promise;
for
which now
'Twas
'Tis
there
true.
He
first
shown
loves
thai
to
you?
whereon
dust
they go
That serve Him here below.
And
memory
now
No voice
of those,
love,)
must
THE SHEPHERDS
Her
stcitely piles
wiih
their height
all
and
pride
Now
cots
above them
stept,
While
Her
all
cedar,
were
hewed
stones,
And
and gold
all
fall.
now
To be a common
No costly pride, no
rack
soft-clothed luxury.
Each
stirring
lie;
their cots.
plots;
THE SHEPHERDS
But thai was
all;
care
They for
They leave
All
To
town prepare;
and in a busy
towards Bethlein walk
the
their flock,
talk
Who
was come,
To bring
Where now
all
stragglers home;
they find
Him
out, and,
taught
before.
And longed
The first light
to see,
but missed.
l8q
Misery
^^
me
lie
such a state at
If
all
can be
Some
As
Then
if
190
MISER Y
Excess of frk'nds, of words, and wine
day, while Tliou dost shine
All unregarded, and Thy Book
Hath not so much as one poor look.
If Thou steal in amidst the mirth
Take up my
And
I
Thus wretched
I,
And
buried in
my
till
oppressed
surfeits
Prove
Next day
call
and cry
Who
But,
now
it
is
Thy
sing.
for
misery.
Thee,
come near
to
me;
servant's pleasure,
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191
MISERY
No man can more the world
Or Thy great mercies better
despise,
prize;
Who
Then would go
travel,
fight, or die.
my
peace
mere disease;
192
MISERY
Nay those briglil beams shot from Thy
To cahn me in these mutinies,
1
eyes
style
At some
Thy
grace.
Such
is
to
my
foe.
To
let
my
cry
come
to
for
Thy
my
good!
throne!
Come,
J^
The Sap
still
on
earth,
Forg-etting
tliy
first
Thus
It
call
and
birth!
thirst for
why
if so,
if it
dost thou
dew?
doth,
why
then
And claim
Who
infuse,
tell
thee news.
There
To
is
There is
way,
And hath
Yet
lived
is
the
He
thee
He
world of misery,
194
THE SAP
For
thee,
didst
who
in
the
first
man's loins
fall
to this vale;
Two
woes
Might His friends discompose,
To show what strange love He had
to
our
good.
He gave His
sacred blood,
By
will
Such
secret
It will
life
exalt
and virtue
and rise.
In
it
lies,
shed,
this
sap,
and get
To
all
There is
you
it
be for sure,
Which
this
Be
sure,
in
with
THE SAP
To wash your
vessel well
then humbly
take
Such
perfect ease,
Of grace
and such a
against
all
lively
sense
sins,
196
Mount
When
first
j^
of Olives
joys,
lijj^ht, and cahn without all noise,
Shined on my soul, 1 felt through all my
powers
Such a rich air of sweets, as evening
Active as
showers,
in
one rich
flood
O'er-ran
My
my
heart,
and
spirited
my
blood;
mine eye
Confessed the world did only paint and lie.
And where before 1 did no safe course steer,
But wandered under tempests all the year;
Went bleak and bare in body as in mind.
And was blown through by every storm
and wind,
I
am
so
warmed now by
That midst
all
storms
19-7
this
feel
glance on me,
a ray of Thee.
MOUNT OF
So have
OLIVES
rise
my
ej^es,
And in the depth and dead of Winter bringTo my cold thoughts a Hvely sense of Spring.
Thus fed by Thee, Who dost all beings
nourish,
My
Thy
Thy wing.
Thy name
may
so
do.
198
praise,
and
my
joy
Man
j^
^g>
Weighing the
Of some mean
stedfastness
and
state
reside,
Where
less
And
Where
date
and
home and
hive,
flowers.
The
would
(said 1,)
these
fine.
MAN
3
Man hath
He hath no
still
He
says
it
so far,
is
to
go
there.
He knocks
at
all
doors,
strays
and
roams
Nay, hath not so much wit as some stones
have,
Which
in the
homes.
By some
Maker gave;
Man
is
God
the shuttle, to
these looms
rest.
Walked the
J^
j^
Other Day, to
Spend my Hour
Where
to
spend
my
hour,
field,
soil
to
yield
g-allant flower;
bower
Yet
I,
to
peep and
peer
Which,
but once
a year;
And
so the flower
out;
And by and by
saw the warm recluse alone
Where fresh and green
He
to
lie,
lived of us unseen.
Many
Did
Such
losses as befell
And would
Come
forth
him
now
in this air.
ere long
most
fair
and young.
dead!
202
are the
peace doth
Rock him
And
yet,
now
asleep below!"
how few
believe
such doctrine
springs
From a poor
Which
root,
all
here under
foot,
To
raise
it
truth
the
to
and
light
of
things
But
is
still
trod
By every wandering
clod.
O Thoa Whose
And warm
And by a sacred
With
life
the dead,
incubation fed
this frame.
That
in
these
may see
Thy sacred way
203
And by
cHmb
to
that
day,
Who
though
invisibly:
And from
this
care,
sorrows reign,
Lead me above.
Where
light,
forts
joy,
leisure,
move
Without
There, hid
again,
in
all
pain
Thee, show
me
Thus
all
the year
204
mourn
his
life
Begging:
Whom
In
Perfect
live,
love,
Whom
in
move,
to
it
Thee;
nol
it
mine,
O my
JUDE,
No'A<
unto
Him
V1R.
That
is
205
24,
25.
able
to
keep us from
BEGGING
and to present us faultless before the
presence of His glory -with exceeding joy.
To the only wise God, our Saviour, he glory,
and majesty, dominion and power, 7iow and
falling,
ever, Ameti.
206
Part II
(b
2(39)
207
j^
Ascension-Day
Lord
what
with
Jesus!
sweetness
and
delights,
ing flights,
Dost Thou
That
fet'd
Who
To Him
Thine!
lifts
gives
all
good and
perfect
gifts,
Thy
glorious,
Ascension
bright
removed
So many ages from me,)
And by Thy
I
a sharer in
soar and rise
Up
so proved
Spirit sealed to
me
P^eel
is
Thy
(though
me, that
victory
to the skies.
And
in
my
their
day
flight
greet
grave.
The
And
first
glad tidings of
Thy
early light,
ASCENSION-DA Y
see that morning' in Thy convert's^ tears,
Fresh as the dew, which but this dawning
I
wears.
her
smell
spices
and
her
ointment
yields,
As
rich
scent
as
the
now primrosed
fields.
The
deceased
Now shines in
all
the
Thee
chambers of the
East.
What
stirs,
mirth
stays.
They pass
fill
all
the
ways?
run
In
their
Sun
I
mark
their haste,
and move
Am.ongst them, with them, winged with
faith and love.
Thy forty days more secret commerce
here
After
funeral, so clear
St Mary Magdalene.
2IO
ASCENSION-DAY
And
As
indisputable
sun
the
shows
dotli,
gave light.
walk the fields
my
to
whicli
sight
days
those
to
of
seventh day,
Before man
decay
When
brought forth
clad
like a virgin
sin,
in
and
sin
flowers and
green
The pure Earth sat; and the fair woods
had seen
No frost, but nourished in that youtliful
vest,
had them
With which
dressed
When
heaven above
molten glass.
While
And
all
them
shined
like
springs,
like
dissolved
their
pearls,
nor
angered
move
in
this
fair place.
And
I
All
see
Him
sad
with
summer
tears,
rain
211
which
like
warm
ASCENSION-DAY
In silent drops steal from their holy eyes,
Fixed lately on the Cross, now on the
skies.
The
cloud
doth
now
receive
Thee, and
their sight
behold
'
'
two men
What two
attest
in
is
true",
Was
to the
stubborn
Jew.
Come
212
Ascension
Hymn
Who
And
yet some,
That know
to die
Walk
sky
to the
Her
flaming- wear,
Man
her dress
transgress.
of old
Within the
line
213
ASCENSION
Of Eden
HYMN
could
But since he
That brightness soiled,
His garments be
All dark and spoiled,
And
here are
left
as nothing worth,
Then
breaks
conies
forth.
He
The
To
Fuller,
He
alone.
And none
else,
Bring bone
to
can
bone
214
light.
j^
Their very
It
light!
bright,
clear.
Or
those faint
beams
in
which
this hill
is
dfessed
After the sun's remove.
I
see
them walking
Whose
My
in
an
air of glory,
my
days;
hoary.
showed them me
To
kindle
my
cold love.
215
What
He
some fledged
know,
bird's
And
in
If
Her
there;
thrall
My
Or
still
blot
as they pass;
me
remove
Where
which
fill
perspective
else
mists,
these
disperse
Either
217
hill,
White Sunday
j^
js^
For
But
seen
at
were
once,
suns,
black
to
thee!
after their light darkness comes,
thine shines to eternity.
Those
which
flames,
on
the
Apostles
rushed
At
and
in
tire
these
These
new
Dove?
Thou hadst no
And Thy two
wings
Thy
were
foes.
Grief
and
Love.
Though
then
some boast
that
fire
each
day,
And on
Iieads;
WHITE SUNDAY
Yet while some rays of that great light
Shine here below within Thy Book,
They never
But
will
shall so blind
my
sight
to look.
that great
light
lock,
And by
this lesser
commerce keep.
have wishes
too,
.And pray,
first.
last
Again,
if
And
One
yet, as in
silerU star
these days
fits.
may
interline,
in
this last
219
WHITE SUNDAY
For, though
And our
we hourly
breathe decays,
eternal
Rock
ages shines,
Art still the same, and canst unlock
Thy waters to a soul that pines.
all
sinful cold;
Upon Thyself,
The knots we
so to destroy
tied
We, who
Shall
be
fine
gold
which
Thou
cleanse.
common
22g
dross!
didst
The
Proffer
Be
still,
black parasites,
Flutter no more;
Were
it
still
winter, as
it
was
before,
my
You
bowers,
fly
and
flock to
harder
Wise husbands
prevent.
Who
do not
so,
That buzz
And
stay!
I 've
read,
Who
't
821
THE PROFFER
Think you these longing eyes,
Though sick and spent,
souls
of
and
spirits,
where
well dressed
They shine
in
white,
stars,
like
and
rest.
my short hour, my
My one poor sand
Shall
inch,
And crumb
And
day,
Novi' cast at night
my crown away?
Your
my
false hair,
sorcery
:
'11
not stuff
story
will
sow
glory.
tares
their
souls
THE PROFFER
But when ihy Master comes, they '11 find
and see
There 's a reward for them and thee.
Then keep
the ancient
way
And
fill
thy
home; think on
dream
the
word
given,
"If these be
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fair,
223
what
is
Heaven'"
Cock-Crowing
Father
What
of lights
glance
of
To
all
the breed
So shines and
sings, as
if it
knew
If
God
prevail?
Whose hand
frame,
We
plainly see
of the seat,
Who made
224
the same;
this
COCK CROWING
Seeing Thy seed abides in me,
Dwell Thou in it, and I in Thee!
To
sleep without
Thee
to die;
is
Yea,
't
is
The shades
And
hearts,
Who
But His,
Only
any eye
gave them wings to
souls be tracked by
Can
this veil
fly?
And
veil,
say,
is
all
the cloak.
Thy
This
veil
And
take
it
off!
make no
delay;
light, that
take
Though
it
off!
or
wilh no
till
lily,
225
it
flee.
stay with
me!
The Star
Whatever
j^
j^
't
is,
and
flow,
curl,
smile,
Though
thy close
commerce nought
at
imbars
all
My present
all
the best
blessed
am
Is well-disposed
Next, there
's
And longing
in
it
and
vital
fire,
THE STAR
Desire that never will be quenched,
Nor can be writhed nor wrenched.
move
And work
all
night upon
love
desire, celestial,
Hath taken
not
root,
pure desire.
tire,
is
the heart
He
craves; and
whoso
will
But give
it
not,
he shall
feel
That God
227
The Palm-Tree
Dear
friend,
sit
this shade.
As
So
deg-rade
With other
it,
trees;
had equal
now
but
liberty
breath
And
air of
thrives
bent
Celestial
natures
still
228
fore-
THE PALM-TREE
This
the
is
which,
life
hid
above with
Christ
In God, doth always (hidden) multiply,
And
whose
tree
Here
fruit is
spirits that
immortality.
fought,
And won
the fight,
frowns
Nor
wrought
Their Master's
crowns.
Here
is
ihe
meet
will,
to receive
their
this
tree
Is
ami numbers
all
shed.
Here
When we two
To
part,
which
If
will a
sleep.
And weave
it
for
wake.
229
j^
Joy
jar
no more;
me
to
is
False,
jug-g-ling-
dressed,
Moves
in
where care
and sighs
disguise,
afflict
the
air.
Sorrows
a sugared
dosis
Of wormwood, and a
death's-head crowned
with roses.
He weighs not your forced accents, who
can have
A lesson played him by a wind or wave.
Such numbers
tell
their days,
whose
spirits
be
Lulled by those charmers to a lethargy.
But as for thee, whose faults long since
require
More
it
To
aspire
230
JOY
Willi clouds and rain, yet
full
as calm and
fine
As those
clear heights
pests shine.
Now
And
So
In
hermit-wells
And going
some
tree,
231
The Favour
O Thy
bright looks
232
The Garland
j&
j^
flourisli
here
below,
To whom a
star
falling-
glory,
Or some
frail
show.
Hark, and
make
use
of
this
ensuing
story.
When
first
my
Grew master
my ways,
my page,
for my days
of
And Darkness
Hung away, and with full
Of wild affections, rid
cry
played with
Made
life
fire,
my common
Or
bid.
stake
would burn,
THE GARLAND
Pieces of sackcloth with silk
I
lists,
Gave
my
wing,
full
roses.
abear,
And grow
for
thee.
Who
spares them
wind."
234
Love-Sick
my
Jesus,
life
how
J^
shall
truly
love
Thee?
that
Thy
Spirit
me
That Thou wert pleased
to shed
Thy grace
so far
make man
As
to
star that
all
would ne'er
rend
Or bow
the heavens
descend.
And at Thy presence
Lord,
make
these mountains
flow.
ice in
me!
Thou
art
Refining
fire,
then refine
my
heart.
then
beat
235
warm
it,
till
it
LOVE-SICK
So beat for Thee, till Thou in mercy hear;
So hear, that Thou must open open to
;
sinful wretch,
woe;
his weal
so far his
weal
That Thou
forgott'st
Thine own,
for
Thou
didst seal
236
Trinity
J^
Sunday
J^
In Heaven,
One God
in Trinity!
Made my
So
let
the anti-types in me
and sealed for free,
Elected, bought,
237
Psalm
104
O my
Up,
soul,
and
God,
My God,
cloth'st
Thyself with
light,
as with
a robe,
And
the
high,
glorious
heavens
Thy
mighty hand
Doth spread like curtains round about
this
globe
Of
air,
The beams
of
and
Thy
sea,
and
land.
bright chambers
Thou
dost lay
find;
path-
PSALM
In
Thy
celestial,
Dispatched
to
104
gladsome messages
holy
with
sick
souls,
desire
And
Thy
minister in
is
fire.
laid
;
then with
the deep
As with a
veil
Thou
hidst
it
Tliy floods
played
fled,
steep.
at
the
known
voice
Of
Some downwards
For Thou
bound
to
their
set,
fury,
sound,
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to their place.
239
PSALM
And
Thy
as
104
Thy
rich
love
lesser
brooks
lets forth,
Which run
These
to
the
beasts
every
of
give
field
drink
And
birds
cool
their
brink
those
Chambers
bottles
of rain,
lie,
Dost
Grass
and herbs
for
man's
use
Thou mak'st
to
grow
these, blessed
oil,
bread
by
all
which infuse
To man's heart strength and mirlh.
240
PSALM
Thou
104
j^tv'st
to those
Cedars in
boughs
The
whose
In
build;
thick
though
tlie
doth choose
The
To
Lebanon,
the cool
course holds,
And
Thou makest
the night
and sight
Hunts in an eager
scent
The
lion's
Roar
in
quest.
seek
Their meat from Thee,
of
Who
dost appoint
the prey,
And
feed'st
them
241
all
the week.
PSALM
104
Retire
my
Lord
goes
day-
God,
rare
In
wisdom hast
Thou made
Them
all;
and
this
the earth,
and every
blade
Of grass we
tread, declare.
sea,
wherein
are
And
These
all
feed
Them
in
giv'st
they take
helps
them
need.
And
at
PSALM
When Thou
dost hide
104
Thy
(Thy face
face
which keeps
All things in being,) ihey
mourn
When Thou
consume and
vigour sleeps,
And
Thou
thy Spirit
send'st
and
they
Thou
dost
forth,
revive,
The
renew:
the world
dost drive,
And
to
Thy works
art true.
With Thy
least
touch
hills
melt
lightnings
and
Thou
wilt give
me
breath,
I
will in
That
songs
gift of
Thou
243
PSALM
I 'II
spice
my thoug-hts
104
Thy Word
Gather true comforts;
liver
be consumed.
O my
Lord!
Yea, bless thou Him
Sliall
244
for ever!
The Bird
J^
j^
all
Thy
pillow was.
born,
So
hills
And though
THE BIRD
While active winds and streams both run
and speak,
Yet stones are deep in admiration.
Thus praise and prayer here beneath tlie sun
Make
lesser morning's,
when
done.
Whose
light,
spirit is
own
a star
little
sphere,
from far.
Both mornings makes and evenings there.
So
the
in
fowls be,
Whose heavy
them
The
notes
make
all
that
hear
sad.
mourns,
Til' the
faith,
fly.
high.
246
The Timber
Sure thou didst flourish once! and
many
springs,
Many
bowers.
And
still
ci
flies;
Towards
the old
and still-enduring
skies;
may
shine.
of greenness, leaf, or
bark.
247
THE TIMBER
And
and
Were
thee.
still
alive,)
resent,
how
and the
near
fierce
breath
Of
tempests can
ease;
But
this thy
Means only
peace.
And
life is
done.
still
Some
secret sense,
blood run
kill.
THE TIMBER
He
that hath
left
life's
care,
And keeps
his soul
From
way
sin,
And
all
his
life
But as shades
and
grief,
stor)',)
By showing
show
the relief
my
Saviour's
THE TIMBER
If
my way
lies
woods,
Where
is
all
cursed;
To
fill
my
bottle,
than
from above.
Begetting virgins
where
they
use
to
flow
And
we die:
Some drops may
fall
till
spring
And ever running, till we leave to fling
Dirt in her way, will keep above the sky.
Rom.
He
that is dead,
cap.
6.
is freed
250
ver.
from
7.
sin.
The Jews
When
js^
then that
lie
And
sure
it
is
not far!
THE JEWS
Would
shine
elsewhere,
since
you were
blind,
And would be
cross,
So by
all
kind:
signs
Towards
first
on earth
in you.
Was
first
Aye, do not go
My spring and
!
Or,
J^
J^
Begging
Thou know'st I
die
fall are in Thy book!
'11
if
To
Why
is
When
rriy
with Thee.
cold,
am
When Thou
do not Thou do as
weeping
lad!
did,
Though
When
their nest
is
faH'n
253
and broken.
BEGGING
Dear Lord
Thy
wealth
not give
give
^54
my
me
ease
spirit health!
J^
Palm-Sunday
Whom
sufferings
Or
secret groves,
Trees,
flowers,
and herbs;
birds,
beasts,
and stones.
That, since
man
To
Lamb, (which
Lift
see the
fell,
all
at once,)
Whose
Man's
life,
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death will be
and your
full
255
liberty.
PALM-SUNDA V
Hark
how
Dear
Whose
fruitful
and dew!
lights;
I '11
To gather
flowers to
will
be
still
welcome
though wrong
a child,
Zechariah, chap.
256
still
thee.
I '11
meek
9, ver. 9.
bear,
PALM-SUNDA Y
As the poor ass which the proud
And
If
only
lose
my
all,
jeer,
The
I
257
Jesus Weeping
S.
Blessfed,
But
still
j^
Luke, chap.
unhappy
unkind
city
!
19.
ver. 41.
dearly loved,
Art
this
day nothing
moved ?
Art senseless
still?
When God
Had
The
Hosanna "
what you
cried.
denied.
tear!
Thy
heart's blessed
extract fed,
Will
Thy
head.
258
The Daughter
of Herodias
S.
Matt. chap.
14.
vvlio
ver.
first
6,
did
&c.
fit
What
ice
Who'
in
the ice broke under her, and chopped off her head.
-
Herod Antipas.
259
And
His shameless
And
well, he swears,
vows
bows.
Skilful enchantress,
Who
Thy mother's
She tempts
to incest,
thou to blood.
260
S.
My
J^
J^
Jesus Weeping-
dear,
35.
weep ?
Why
bones'
Unite, and raise up
O
O
all
And
spring,
how
is
't
that you
so sadly
grieve,
Who
can relieve?
Thy
store
more?
reign
feign.
JESUS WEEPING
Those
blasts,
which
o'er
stray,
If showers then fall, will showers allay;
As those poor pils^rims oft have tried,
Who in this windy world abide.
love;
prove.
Did breed
this strife
What Thou
JESUS U'EEP/XG
Then
farewell joys
My business
A grief that
for while
live,
And
Psalm
73.
Whom
is
ver. 25.
263
Providence
j^
Hand
If
(Whose
Thy
service
servant be,
makes
my
tribute pay,
shall bring
me
meat.
And
As
if 1
1,
knew no month
264
still
go
but May.
neat.
PROVWE.\CE
what man
and power can.
Willi
all
his plots
Baijs that
wax
may
old
plundered be;
.And herbs
May
Who
he
May
.-\nd
crown,
his
what he
If all
saves,
my
may
portion here.
year.
Who
PROVIDENCE
And
Gladly will
I,
me when grown
old;
Since
266
fold.
The Knot
Bright Queen of Heaven
God's Virg-in
Spouse
world's Blessed Maid!
beauty tied life to thy house,
And brought us saving aid:
The glad
Whose
by thee
did dignify.
What
Which
life,
us in
dares loose.
United keeps
for ever.
267
-^
The Ornament
Although the
And
But
first
the last
wliile
is
all
Whom
268
St.
Mary
Magdalen
more white
tlian
day
When
As
How
art thou
best in dew:
changed,
how
lively-fair,
When
Where
Why
all
lies
was sumptuous,
this hair despised
rare
and
neat.
now
Which once
Who
Which with
skilled negligence
Why
is
wild,
seemed shed
young head?
nard
MARV MAGDALEN
ST.
and
marred ?
Spilled,
the
box
quite
and
broke
Why
earth
At
their
Lord's
footstool
have
their
birth;
Thy
And hasty
in
live
they had
(Their Lord so near,) sense to be glad.
Learn, ladies, here the faithful cure,
Makes beauty lasting, fresh and pure;
drops, as
if
MARY MAGDALEN
ST.
Cheap, mighty
Who
art
much more
could
move
Her
art
Till truth
through
all
last
Till his
know.
judge her
Is't just to
By
that foul
faithful tears
rheum thy
false eye
wears?
He
Who
like
still
is
child's, spotless
leprous that
still
and fresh;
paints:
B 269
271
The Rainbow
young and
Still
fine
but what
is
still
in
view
We
slight as old
and
soiled,
though fresh
and new.
How
Did
with
intentive
looks
watch
every
hour
When thou
and
Forms
light,
and trembled
at
each
fair,
air:
his honey-drops,
cleft earth,
flowers.
872
and
THE RAINBOW
Bright pledge of peace and sunshine! the
sure tie
thy Lord's hand, the object' of His eye!
When I behold thee, though my light be
Of
dim,
Distant, and low,
Who
looks upon
throne.
And minds
the
covenant 'twixt
All
and
One.
foul, deceitful
His promise
men
still,
but
sleep.
sin
first
was
in blood,
Flood;
To
lose
Him
too,
(as if
we
did devise
as well as Paradise,)
we
sins
join
and
act to-
gether,
Though
foul,
make
but
foul weath('r.
weep,)
Could not reform us, and blood, (in despite,)
Yea, God's own blood, we tread upon and
slight.
'
Gen. chap.
9, ver. 16.
273
THE RAINBOW
So those bad daughters, which God saved
from fire,
While Sodom yet did smoke lay with their
sire.
Then
Still
lodged, where
all
shroud
I will on thee as on a comet look,
A comet, the sad world's ill-boding book;
Thy light as luctual and stained with woes
judge, where penal flames sit mixed
and close;
For though some think thou shin'st but to
I '11
restrain
Yet
Thou
know
well,
and so our
turns
fire.
274
cold
sins require,
rain,
till
rain
The Seed
Growing
J0^
J^
Secretly
S.
Mark, chap.
If this world's
What some
4.
vkr.
26.
spills.
spread
One
Thy
living drop
If pious griefs
fill
275
For Thy
None
near
fresh,
And
stained
withered
or
shall
come
spotless white
is
all
the wear.
all
On
He
singly sheds
What
Within
itself,
an outward test?
Who
Then
277
As Time One
Day by Me
J^
J^
did Pass
As Time one day by me did pass,
Throug-h a larg^e dusky glass
He
And
Of
held,
chanced
to look,
book
A mourning
light
Heaven
did shed
Many
And
writ,
and
all
thy days.
and may
Teach age the holy way;
All pearled with tears,
Where through
AS TIME ONE
As some meek
To
nif^ht-piece
DAY
which day
quails,
candle-light unveils:
So by one beamy
line
From
brave.
Here
slept
my
dust
Seemed
devour
to
But dust
(I
like rust
did observe,)
As we,
()
A beauty
Than the
far
lies
more bright
Sleep,
279
Fair and
Yourxg Light!
Fair and
(irief
Whom
As
Young Light my
guide
did
still
to holy
sliun
foolish fire
darkness,
dens,
and
mire
How am
That
And
to
now
in love
with
weep
turtle,
Our
Our
all
souls' diseases
bodies'
first,
men
and then
With
fatal
How
artfully
That
kill
do you destroy.
with smiles and seeming joy!
FAIR
Where
all
is
pure, wliere
all
what
But
Earth
breathes
even.
is
and
late.
bright.
against
thy
light!
How
blessed
had
men
been,
had
their
sire
Lived
still
Nor made
The
in
life
So that famed
fruit,
which made
all
die,
.Seemed
that
And
fair
free.
now
with Thee
FAIR
Where
On
AND YOUNG
LIGHT!
Alas my God
take home
This world but laug'us at
weep.
!
282
Thy sheep
those
that
The Stone
Josh. chap.
have
But where
Where
it
An
nights,
ver.
27.
now
eye or ear,
What man
If
24.
to act that
shall
J^
j^
will
show ?
Silent as tombs.
Will not conceal nor assent to
do?
will
Was shown
1,
alas!
one day
in
a strange glass
THE STONE
They
And
As loud as
Whose
Hell and
blood.
IntelJig-ence,
all
life,
Spirit feeds
before
Whose
eyes
lies.
He hears,
that accuseth none, so steers
His righteous course, that though
He
He
knows
All that
Yet
man
He
will not
all-seeing
Condemn men
light
and
all
right,)
which
process,
own
by His
(Though both
e'en
to be just.
for witnesses,
and stones,
scribe
and
register,
sins record.
The Law
Who
S.
John, chap,
s,
284
THE STONE
same deed
Whose
Will
substance, thougli
prove
tough.
their
hearti.
iiard enouj^h,
is
"t
more
stiff
and
What
all
any (for He
His easy yoke
If
all
invites,)
rejects or slights.
S.
John, chap,
man
vile
arraign,
and
885
vain.
The
Dwelling-Place
S.
John, chap.
i.
ver. 38,
39.
What
My
far.
My
dear, dear
What
how;
I am sure Thou dost now come
Oft to a narrow, homely room.
Where Thou too hast but the least part
But
My
God,
mean my
286
sinful heart.
The Men
S.
of
War
j^
j&
Luke, chap.
zt,.
ver.
ii.
let
him hear!
A sword
Here
And
kill,
Were
not
How
would
light,
Nor
For
Thy
B 269
Revel, chap.
287
Thou wouldst no
wouldst
but
legions,
bleed.
But
I '11
Since of
my
not take
their will,
it
ill.
here,
hold
fast,
and
And
to
my greatest haters,
my God a heart
Give me,
And
plain, as
when
288
kind.
as mild
was a
child.
may
and
fail,
Amongst
Who
set,"
it
that cliosen
by no blood
company.
overcame
(liere)
289
all
The Ass
S.
Thou Who
J&^
Matt. chap.
didst
place
21.
me
hi
this
busy
street
Which
neither
liberty.
tires,
(Who
question
Power,
son.)
290
they speak
trea-
THE ASS
Let me, Thy ass, be only wise
To carry, not search, mysteries.
(Who carries Thee, is by Thee led
Who argues, follows his own head.)
To check bad motions, keep me still
Amongst the dead, where thriving 111
Without
And
his
Truth,
prize.
At
world
offers to
me
aught.
Thy way.
Thy grace
To shun
Prevail with
Let
me
And
let
When
Finds
Thy poor
When
he from wild
And
slights
foal at
that
is
Thy command,
become
wise.
prize
991
THE ASS
all things here to thistles turn
Pricking his lips, till he doth mourn
And hang the head, sighing for those
Pastures of life where the Lamb goes
When
break or untie
292
The
J^
j^
Hidden Treasure
S.
"What
Matt. chap.
can the
man
king?
Even what was done
13.
ver. 44.
and no new
before,
thhig."i
Who
light?
forth
to
fool
and
foil
thee,
do not
boast
And
those
yea,
fall
To
Ecclesiastes, chap.
2, ver.
12.
1,
searches
secret
which
afflict
the
wise,
saw
at distance,
fruit
Which
The
world's
wisdom,
loved
(for
the
There
is
none
else,)
brink
use
I.
Man's favourite
petites.
Which nature
and some
breeds,
fine clay
invites,
With
all
their
soft,
strains.
Which
strongly operate,
though without
pains,
Did
not
greater
beauty
mine
rule
eyes,
entice.
But
since
these
sweets
are
sour
and
poisoned here,
Where
year,
294
all
the
Ml
seal
my
eyes
up,
and
to
Thy com-
mands
Submit my wild heart, and restrain my
hands
will do nothing, nothing know, nor see.
I
But what Thou bidst, and show'st, and
teachest me.
gav'st;
all
that
do
restore,
But
for
before.
295
j^
j^
Childhood
Were now
drive,
Why
A
should
men
love
Who
Are,
If
296
CHILDHOOD
Or by
From
to lose
my
soul.
And
An age
Must
of mysteries
twice that
!
live
which he
would God's
face
see;
How
do
And
Thy
is
and mid-day!
narrow w;iy
the
297
The Night
S.
'^
j^
John, chap.
3.
That sacred
\eil
drawn
ver.
2.
viria^In
o'er
Thy
shrine,
glorious
noon,
worms shine,
And face
the
live,
as glow-
moon,
Who
in
night.
that
eyes
healing wings
Thy long-expected
could
see,
When Thou
didst rise;
He
silent
THE NIGHT
hallowed solitary ground did bear
So rare a flower;
What
The
lie
No mercy-scat of gold,
dead and dusty cherub, nor carved stone,
But His own living works, did my Lord
No
hold
The
care's check
and
curb;
The day
of spirits
my
Which none
Christ's'
soul's
calm retreat
disturb
The hours
chime.
God's
When my
silent,
searching flight;
is filled with dew,
Lord's head
and all
His locks are wet with the clear drops of
night
His
1
S.
Mark, chap,
still,
i,
soft call;
ver. 35.
S.
299
Luke chap.
THE NIGHT
knocking -time;
His
the
soul's
dumb
watch,
When
kindred catch.
Then I
Would
seldom rent
heaven all the long year
ii.
keep,
here.
To every mire
And by this world's ill-guiding
Err more than
There
deep,
is
in
light,
can do by night.
as
men
here
Say
it
is
late
Might
live invisible
300
in
and dim
Him
Abel's Blood
j0^
Whose
If single
thou
(Though
As speaks
still
in thy
Maker's
ear,
What
"How
301
ABELS BLOOD
Whose
brings,)
Than
302
The
whose blessed
white
and dressed
old,
Leaving
J^
J^
Righteousness
sliades
planted
prophets
first
for
fades,)
the
shelter all
to
rest;
Who
the
is
man
that
walks
In
thee?
who
loves
Heaven's
abodes
secret
Where turtles
move
build,
those
solitude,
and
Without to-morrow's
fair
careless sparrows
evils
and
future
loads?
Who
eye.
The
clean,
pure
hand
which
never
meddled pitch?
Who
sees invisibles,
With hidden
treasures that
make
rich ?
(b
269
303
truly
RIGHTEO USNESS
He
and
love
Quick
to
homewards
flies.
his
sight;
Who
faith,
spills
out.
Thorns
Of
in the beds
the distressed, hasting their overthrow;
Making the time they had
Bitter
Like
chronic
and
sad.
pains,
which
surely
kill,
thou"h
^&' slow.
in his
Who
And
RIGHTEOUSNESS
Who
for
his
toes
Who
And
i;ives
full
aid
Who
the
Be ta'en in dust
good man is God's
peculiar
treasure.)
Who
By
dotii
secret
filth,
nor feeds
or weeds,
Some snake
305
man walks
in this
My God
I
^^
Anguish
bov\^
and King
my knee
to
Thee
or tread
it,
My
it!
(iod, could
(iladly
Or if Thou wilt
Which through
shall do
it
wilt,
weep
too.
blood,
would
give
me
that art
the eyes
pours out
the
heart,
I
exhaust
will
Myself
all
't
To
But
it
tears,
is
all,
and make
a weeping lake.
an easy thing
to write true,
unfeigned verse
To
O my
Or
God, hear
let
me
die
306
my
cry;
Tears
j^
j^
Drink
Thy
The
But
after them.
if
lowest pitch
he pays,
Thou
hast
my
sin
307
Jacob's Pillow
and
I
see the
And
^,
Pillar
Temple
in
'T
are
rude.
to
thy
offspring
spoke.
The
small,
still
voice at
knocks.
But a strong wind must break thy
lofty
rocks.
The
first
great
From
true
King
private
and
selected
spring;
308
hearts
did
JACOB'S PILLOW
AND PILLAR
A most
For
fair notion,
stone.
When
made
once
public,
is
esteemed by
none.
Man
slights
Maker when
his
familiar
grown,
.And sets up laws to pull His honour down.
This God foresaw and when slain by the
:
crowd,
And form
to serve
Him
in
siiould be true
grace
And
the
meek
at
That
secret
dwell.
VV^hen
the
Heathens
proud
waters
rage,
when
rule
JACOB'S PILLOW
Goshen
This
little
And
Satan's seat,) in
AND PILLAR
(In
all
light;
Stone,
And
Who
He
captivity!
dis-
tress
Was
just the
same with
ours,
and nothing
less
Yet thou
On
woe:
and grief.
and found'st but
Thou from
way
didst
stand.
And
all
that distance
mand.
*
Obadiah, chap,
i,
ver. ii.
310
Amos,
cliap.
i,
ver. ii.
JACOB'S PILLOW
AND
Sun by
PILLAR
and ni^ht
But we a
hearnii<'
Have our
daj-
Light.
What
we
find
And
feel,
kind.
Thy
pillow
at
best,
3"
Him
The Agreement
J^
wrote it down.
But one, that saw
envied that record, did since
Such a mist over my mind draw,
It quite forg-ot that purposed glimpse.
I read it sadly oft, but still
Simply believed 'twas not my quill.
I
And
hX.
.\nd,
sing,
Be
in
My
move,
Glitter
love.
THE AGREEMENT
art the oil and the wine-house;
Thine are the present healing leaves,
Blown from the tree of life to us
By His breath Whom my dead heart
Thou
heaves.
't,
in
print.
zeal
lays
out
and
blends
Only self-worship and self-ends.
pearly rock.
living lights.
Thy
Thy
leaves
are
healing
Sun sheds;
wings He
spreads.
For
until
313
THE AGREEMENT
They said my own hands did remove
That candle j^^iven me from above.
God!
My
know and do
confess
If
Thy
Then
all is
Thy covenant by
No
Can
And
this
Dost
Thy
Christ extends
still
truth.
New
And when
let
in
death
my
speech
is
sent,
spent,
And hear my
my
foes,
3H
THE AGREEMENT
So Thou
Who
didst the
work
bi-j^in,
S.
John, chap.
315
The Day of
Judgment
day so
'Twill
fresh, so bright,
so brave,
And make
Youthful and
fair to see
new
compared
skies.
to thee,
They
My
And
stones,
"Come!"
dumb.
When
shall
Of
That
voice,
we hear
and joys?
which to each
life
Of my
secret bed
Lord's dead,
316
THE DA y OF JUDGMENT
Shall bring true day,
The way
When
and m;ikc
immortality
to
those
shall
first
duist see
whin
pilgrims
rise,
Whose
happy
holy,
histories
His time
Thv
But,
short,
is
Nor moan
more raging
growls.
creatures'
what
is
O God
The
And
Yet,
317
Psalm 65
God
Praise waits in
All flesh shall
on Thee
humility.
all
hearest prayer!
sinful
And
of Salvation
terrible.
Man
Art
Thy
to his duty.
by strange things
justice brings
Thou
alone
Thou
wild.
PSALM
6j
Thou
for the
it
Thy upper
With
and then
visit'st
Water'st
river,
sons of
which abounds
makes
streams,
fertile
men
rich
all
grounds
all
unseen
The
And
hills,
Wear
The
full
bless.
of springing pride,
adornments on each
fresh
flocks
fruitful
fill
side.
every dale,
B 269
319
The Throne
j^
Revel, chap.
20.
ver.
11
When
And should
will produce.
320
fail,
Death
Though,
'Tis
JS^
since thy
first
sad entrance by
now
And
still
We
talk
And
fro.
we throughly see
dark way
Thv shades but thin and narrow be.
Which His first looks will quickly fray:
And
Mists
make
DEA TH
As harmless
which give
violets,
So
die
His
serv^ants
and as sure
Then
But
let
lift
Though
them
fled
322
alive.
spirits hive
i^
The Feast
come away,
Make no delay,
Come while my heart is clean and
steady
No
here lent
bliss
permanent,
Such triumplis poor flesh cannot merit
Short sips and sights
Is
Who
Endear delights
seeks for more, he would inherit.
Come
Whose
Come, antedate
On me
that state
Aye, victory
When
the spill
Avw
THE FEAST
Like tears doth show
to be released.
Spring- up,
Wine,
And springing
shine
me
to
have
in
Him
heart,
a part
it
fed.
Which
my
seeing.
How
And
Through
sick!
THE FEAST
O
what
The
And songs
joys!
liii^h
turtle's voice
hear!
quickenhig showers
Of my Lord's blood,
You make rocks bud,
And crown
dry
hills
For
My
thorny
More
painful. Cross,
my
Are
all
What,
all
my
way
the
worst state,
Oh!
As
than down
bed of rest!
Opening
O Thy
crovi-n
soft
my
Thy
only best
griefs
reliefs.
my
God! but a
silent tear!
THE FEAST
And
But
let
me
Why Thou
And what
in
llie
meat
heed
didst bleed,
Revel, chap.
19.
ver.
calleil ii7i1u
320
9.
the
The
Obsequies
j^
Thou
didst crave
no
for
more
With a cheap,
plain
Of Thy sad
remembrance
still
death.
Should
If not
Thy
my own
sense.
Men
I
call
lusts,
good cheer,
and tied,
all
mortified.
And
jov.
THE OBSEQUIES
But Thou, Who didst man's whole
Dost so invite and woo me still.
That to be merry I want skill,
And time
life
earn,
to learn.
To make me brave
cannot find, but where Thy head
Was once laid for me in Thy grave.
Thy grave To which my thoughts shall
I
move
Like bees
in
328
false love
soul alive.
The Waterfall
J^
J0^
throuii^li
Time's
silent steahh,
Dost
thy
transparent,
cool,
and watery
wealth
And
As
if
Lingering',
and were of
this
steep
place
afraid;
The common
pass,
Have
Why,
Runs
whence
it
flowed before,
THE WATERFALL
Or, since those drops are all sent back
to thee that none doth lack,
Why should frail flesh doubt any more
Su sure
and
useful element
?vly
My
clear!
O my
My
just so pass
glorious liberty,
Thou
Not
men.
invisible estate.
art the
this
still
channel
my
late!
soul seeks.
330
J^
j^
Quickness
False
life
Thou
men
Thou
moon-like
art a
toil;
a blind
Self-posing' state;
A dark
A mere
Life
is
tempestuous debate.
a
fixed,
A
No
And
'T
discerning light,
knowing' joy;
chance, or
calm, and
is
contest of
such a
fit
full,
blissful
thing that
Doth vivify,
And shine and smile, and hath
To
still
the skill
Thou
moving
mist.
The Wreath
Since
in
shall
From
j^
And seldom
How
j^
yielded flowers,
332
The Queer
j^
J^
tell,
who
And
Of knowing
thee, so rarely
333
known!
The Book
Eternal
God
That have
/^
j^
Maker
of
all
Man's
fall
Thou
Mere
seed,
when
it
was
Whether good
Thou knew'st
Thou knew'st
Did
live
and
this
feed by
Thy
On
decree
fed.
lies
THE BOOK
A
Which makes me
On my own dust
O
Thou
knowing, glorious
Spirit!
when
When Thou
shalt
make
all
new
and men,
again,
B 269
335
To
O
Book!
And thou
Take this
Life's guide!
j&
j&
how
shall
we
part;
my heart?
and let me weep
so long seized of
last kiss;
True thanks
to thee before
sleep.
Thou wert
When
yet
But as rash
youths,
strong,
Ran
in
first
or sick;
light gained
from thee
chase of vanity.
soul,
Refining
still
me home,
Show me
that pearl
didst there
sought elsewhere.
Thou
kisses,
blisses,
life,
and
still
my soul's
me go in
all strife.
sure ease,
peace:
S.
Glory
to
Luke, chap.
God
2.
ver.
in the highest,
peace, good
-will
337
14.
and on earth
toivards men.
L'Envoy
new
the
4S^
The
And
seers of
Shall
all
Immortal shape,
Who
wrought
their bliss;
Arise, arise!
And
up these skies,
then shine and spread
own bright Self over each head,
through Thy creatures pierce and pass,
like old clothes fold
This long-worn
Thy
And
veil:
state
fit
Thy
A
A
Thy
state for
338
L ENVOY
O seeing Thou hast paid our score,
Why should the curse reign any more?
But since Thy number
Unfinished,
we
is
as yet
May
fully
Only
let
fit
Thy
glorious reign.
mere
words
Wound Thy
And cement
one fold,
be fed, and one mind hold.
Give watchful spirits to our guides;
For sin, like water, hourly glides
By each man's door, and quickly will
That
We may
339
r:
Turn
in,
if
ENVOY
not obstructed
still.
So
we know
shall
in
Thy
Who
0e6s Kal
Kal TO
6 Kvpios
IIvvfji.a
340
'
iTjaovs
t6
UpLarbs
S-yiof.
Appendix
Contaitiin^ a
" The
list
Temple''''
and in "Silex
341
Scintillans"
the sky;
slo\
Which
they that
know
the
rest,
342
I.
saw thy
birth.
steps,
And,
Doth
my weak
Pine,
and
after all
fire.
retire;
my
height of flames,
Until
1-eaving me dead
On my first bed,
Thy sun again ascends.
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2.
Home
XI
my
That
free soul
Which now
(i)
is
may
man
untie!
As an entangled, hampered
thing.
God gave
feathers
all
ill
weathers.
Lxxvi
Sum up
And
at night,
in the
Whit Sunday
(iii)
And
spread
Hatching
Till
it
Thy
my
my
song,
golden wings
in
me
get wing,
and
fly
344
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SCINTILLANS"
Isaac's
Marriage
To
Unto
God;
thy
forth,
dress
soul, and with new pinions refresh
Her wearied wings, which so restored did fly
Above the stars, a track unknown and high
Thy
Up
Ascension
Hymn
Who
will
may
not rest
Holy Scriptures
I
And
hatch
my
soul, until
Up where Thou
art,
345
my
it
fire,
fly
nest,
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3.
Providence
XXX
Rain, do not hurt
Your honey-drops
When
And
4.
at
my
:
them here
Sion
3 All Solomon's sea of brass and world of stone
Is not so dear to Thee as one good groan.
Not
that
Much
Thou
hast not
still
above
make;
Did
take.
The Family
Joys
and
What
is
so
shrill
as silent tears?
346
fears.
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SCINTILLANS"
The Rainbow
thou dost shine, Darkness looks white and fair,
to music, clouds to smiles and air
Rain gently spends his honey-drops, and pours
Balm on the cleft earth, milk on grass and flowers.
When
Forms turn
Isaac's
Marriage
The
and blends
sends
A silent
Thy
throne,
When
And
Than any
arted string.
In
Hear
"A Litany",
us, O hear us,
sinner
Than
is
stanza
xxiii,
Lord to Thee
more music when he prays,
;
In panegyric alleluias
347
;]
of this
he says:
'
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The Search
V
Deep-drawn
Winged
like
out,
in pain,
an arrow
Returns
VI
Thee
:
but
my
scout
in vain.
5.
Thou
served of old,
When
With
All
II
<
The Storm
6.
III
They purge
7.
Prayer
(i)
all
348
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SCINTILLANS"
Celestial natures
home
still
Solomon of old
By Howers and carvings and mysterious skill
Of wings, and cherubims, and palms foretold.
Aspire for
this,
The Night
IV
No
mercy-seat of gold,
No
And
lodge alone
The Storm
So
shall that
my
soul.
The world
349
is
in tune.
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Longing
3.
The Tetnper
IV Wilt
(i)
Thou
dost
stretch
A crumb
9.
of dust from
Heaven
to Hell?
The Collar
head there:
350
tie
up thy
fears.
APPENDIX
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SCINTILLANS"
Burial
III
Thou
same,
art the
In
Though
faithful
and
just,
or dust.
life,
stray
In blasts.
Or
and wastes,
exhalations,
Beyond
Yet
all
Thy
eyes.
love spies
clay.
Distraction
I
Give
for
And
am
crumbled dust
the heap
'
The Proffer
V
Shall
my
My
And crumb
short hour,
my
inch.
life,
now ready
to disband.
Now
'
Sure, there
's
But
the burthen
my
cast at night
the day.
of bodies
tie
will
all
crown away?
be
my own
Death's head
Joy
False, juggling
sounds
(B269)
351
2C
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GEORGE HERBERTS "THE TEMPLE"
10.
III
The Agony
Love
is
Which my God
feels as
and most
blood
divine,
but
I,
as wine.
God
IV Blessed be
Who of the
Ev'n
11.
God
my
sake.
Discipline
I
O my
God,
Take
12.
Affliction
IV
(i)
The Flower
away
snow in May,
there were no such cold
Grief melts
As
if
-ike
352
thing.
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SCINTILLANS"
The Passion
Most blessed Vine!
juice so good
Whose
I feel
But
as wine,
Thy
fair
branches
felt
as blood.
The Relapse
O my
And
The Resolve
There
An
is
ancient way.
and happiness,
May.
And
fresh as
Providence
III
And
As
I,
if I
still
go
353
neat.
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GEORGE HERBERT'S "THE TEMPLE"
13.
Business.
VIII
If
He had
If
He had
Thou
Two
be.
Lcwe Unknown
.
And
have, of
A Lord I had,
some grounds which may
.
Whom
im-
prove,
I
14.
15.
lives,
and both
lives in
me.
Sunday
I
Thy
354
APPENDIX
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SCINTILLANS"
The Sap
Yet lived
He
A
And had
not
Two
He
so done,
it is
for thee
most true
The Match
11
Two
lives
For one,
The
am
And
O let me
still
in the
life,
endless
next world
is,
mind
that in this.
Day
Easter
Awake
And
Who
awake
rise
as He,
maxims
(especially
stanzas
63-77)
obviously
Lessons.
Son- Days
...
Man
Lamps
that light
thee.
sug-
APPENDIX
GEORGE HERBERT'S "THE TEMPLE'
III
We
Make
Of
I
i6.
still
string,
...
Care's
King
six
God' s breath in
The
The
man
returning
to his birth,
Christian
earth;
joy,
and
love,
and
bliss,
(i)
is
something understood.
356
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SCINTILLANS"
II
The
man
XX
my bead of days.
The Night
II
The
creature's jubilee
Heaven here
Jloi.vers
Man
on those
hills oj
A gleatn
III
myrrh and
trust
The Church's
love-feasts;
And
Time's prerogative,
interest
the combs,
and hivf
suns; a clue
erring hours;
and
in full
story
taste of
Of a
full feast
vi.
357
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GEORGE HERBERT'S "THE TEMPLE"
17.
Holy Scriptures
...
III
Working
18.
IV
art
Providence
Man
The
19.
(i)
Thou
Love
Who
is
the world's
sacrifice for
High
Priest
he doth present
all.
(i)
sings
Thy
praise?
20.
write of love.
The Star
V Then
Motion and
Unto
heat, let
's
358
APPENDIX
HENRY VAUGHAN'S "SILEX
SCINTILLANS"
Corruption
Each
oak,
Retirement
cell,
(ii)
They
(i)
should
rise
The Bee
The
and bowls,
The
Faith
And
as
i"
th'
How
do they
And Man,
like Issachar, in
Water's refined
Fire to
all three,
only earth,
loads delight;
but
man
359
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21.
VI
Glitter,
Of adoration.
22.
To
fly
home
Unto
And
Praise
by gaining mc,
a laden bee
that hive of
beams
garland streams.
(i^
raise
me
then
Sting
Who
like
my
all
day,
APPENDIX
HENRY VAUGHAN'S "SILEX
SCINTlLLANii"
Love-sick
Thou
Refining
My
fire,
my
then refine
Thou
art
art
heart,
immortal heat;
Lamp
.
can see
Met
Thy
in
And
thy flames
light, is
Devotion
still
all
acts of piety
on wing;
is
Zeal;
fires reveal
.
The Star
Whatever
't is,
Man
1
Where
reside.
date
hive,
and
flowers,
Early as well as
late.
361
APPENDIX
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23.
The
362
APPENDIX
HENRY VAUGHAN'S
"SI LEX
SCINTl LEANS"
Providence
How
II
a mystic cloud
in
they arrive
till
The Obsequies
II
The grave
Like bees
in
The Bee
Give
me
And
the
wisdom
of the bee,
Go
with
Where
may
shade and
to the
from them,
Till
I
me
cell,
fly
like
home and
a laden bee,
hive with Thee.
Admission
I
Then
And
As
Chide
in
windows
Thine ears
363
beats.
APPENDIX
GEORGE HERBERT'S "THE TEMPLE"
Ephes.
IV
4.
JO
take thy
lute,
and tune
Which may
it
to a strain,
with thee
More bowels
24.
Longing
From Thee
all
pity flows.
art,
More
free.
Whitsunday
{the last stanza in the
Show
that
Thy
Williams MS.)
So we may cease
ever.
The H. Scriptures
I
Oh Book
Suck every
Priest
Infinite sweetness
let
my
heart
letter,
to the
Temple
364
APPENDIX
HENRY VAUGHAN'S "SILEX
SCINTILLANS"
Admission
III
if
Thou
We
Easter
Hymn
And
As pleasant
as
if
36s
APPENDIX
GEORGE HERBERT'S "THE TEMPLE"
Churck Monuments
25.
While that my
Here 1 intomb
May take
To which
my
flesh, that
Praise
King
Thou
III
will
my
hast heard
request,
me
my
working breast
Thou hast spared me.
Wherefore with
And
never cease,
move Thee.
didst note
my
will sing
the cream of
r
IV
may
hast granted
Thou
Thou
suggested
King of Peace!
love Thee
that love
I
II
obviously
(ii)
of Glory,
I will
And
crimes,
at last.
all
Herbert's
I
betimes
it
will
utmost art
Thee,
all
my
heart
bring Thee.
my
in seven,
Thee.
heart, though not in Heaven,
I can raise Thee.
I
will praise
366
to
APPENDIX
HENRY VAUGHAN'S "SILEX
SCINTILLANS"
Rules and Lessons
XXI
accounts thus made, spend in the grave one hour
be not a stranger there,
Where thou may'st sleep whole ages Life's poor flower
Thy
before he dies.
King
of comforts
Thou
King of
hast cheered
life
mc
Not a nook
Not a thought,
Wherefore with
that breaks
And
as
Thou
IV
Day and
I
And my
I
B 269
kill'st
my
will praise
breast
fill'st it,
But Thou
III
my
in all
But Thou
rife,
rest,
utmost strength
Thee,
giv'st line
will raise
my
it
and
length,
Thee.
once a day
Thee,
night, not
will bless
soul in
new array
will dress
Thee.
367
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The Elixir
27.
IV All
may
Thee partake
of
Which
'
for
Thy
sake',
VI This
The Holdfast
28.
I
29.
The Temper
Yet take
is
strict
decree
my power and
might:
{\)
Thy way
but tuning
To make
Stretch or contract
This
all
368
APPENDIX
HENRY VAUGHAN'S "SILEX
SCINTILLANS"
Affliction
Holy Scriptures
In thee the hidden Stone the
Thou
art the
Great
manna
Elixir, rare
lies;
and choice
Of
Affliction
and
clay
frailty
my
cell
(i)
And by
And
IV
for
Who
His
life
His sake
died to stake
My
heart,
my
369
Thy
verse.
will
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GEORGE HERBERTS "THE TEMPLE"
30.
VIII
Miserie
is
in
in
phrase the
Man
IX
O foolish man!
How hast thou
X and
XI
And
lost
But
Man
The
spring,
doth know
whence
yet as though he
knew
31.
all
it
things flow
not,
lets his
humours reign;
The Pearl
my
grovelling wit.
Thy
To
32.
climb to Thee.
Herbert's
370
APPENDIX
HENRY VAUGHANS "SILEX
SCINTILLANS"
model of The Tempest
IX Yet hugs he
And
his dirt
still
down both
his
eyes
Heaven hath
And money
XI
man
foolish
How
is it
less
spies,
how
VII All
Though he knows
set ascents;
these,
but
man
his
own.
Sleeps at the ladder's foot alas what can
These new discoveries do, except they drown?
;
Retirement
Nay,
(i)
And edge
When
My
of
all.
thou would'st
fall
My
unseen
IV
link.
expounded
Vaughau's Dressing
Give to
Thy
mystical
commimion.
That, absent, he
Live, die,
and
may
rise
see.
with Thee;
in
He may
dost
take Thee, as
Thou
371
the end
him
intend.
in
APPENDIX
GEORGE HERBERT'S "THE TEMPLE"
O my
33.
34.
35.
Hope
'
With
36.
chief
Good
',
friend, sit
full
and so
down',
of tears
Virtue
The
Sunday
The
fruit
bright,
372
APPENDIX
HENRY VAUGHAN'S "SILEX
SCINTILLANS"
The Passion begins.
so The
Palm-Tree begins.
So
The World
I
{\)
night.
'
calm as
it
light.
was bright
Secretly
What
The Queer
I
The
Proffer
VIII
373
APPENDm
GEORGE HERBERT'S "THE TEMPLE"
Providence
37.
XII
Thou
sea, e'en
11
Me
More
VI
skill in
Who
Giddiness
III
Now
he
will fight
Now
And snudge
40.
III
gathers.
The Glimpse
38.
39.
hast
it
out,
and
to the wars;
in quiet
The Glance
If
Thy
first
What wonders
shall
we
Thy
When Thou
feel,
when we
full-eyed love
374
shall see
APPENDIX
HENRY VAUGHAN'S "SILEX
SCINTILLANS"
The Mutiny
I
Turning to Him,
Who
waves,
to tire
CIV
Psalm
VII
set,
in
a bound,
seas
Misery
Thee
shut
Such music
out,
spoils
Would make
'
The
a Court, should
He
there dwell.
To
"t is
for
Thee
gain-
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GEORGE HERBERT'S "THE TEMPLE'
41.
Nature
tame
It is
To
42.
IV
captivate strongholds to
Affliction then
is
the trees,
Thee
ours
whom
Dialogue-Anthem
Death : Let
'
44.
heart
highest art
Affliction (v)
We are
43.
my
Thy
losers talk
Peace
III
Then went
to a garden,
gallant flower,
The Crown
Imperial:
376
;'
APPENDIX
HENRY VAUGHAN'S "SILEX
SCIXTILLANS"
Begging
(i)
Herbert's Praise
it is
Thy
its
opening to
(ii)
only art
Joy
'
Sighs
make
The World
I
(ii)
Which doth
'
to
spend
my hour
Where
my
hour.
field.
soil to yield
gallant flower;
The Request
On
looks doth
Thy
love shine
accurst.
377
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45-
IV
He
sweetly lived
from foes.
But after death out of Iis grave
There sprang twelve stalks of wheat
His
life
To
VI
It
plant
set.
Through
P'or
all
That
A secret
the earth
it
do rehearse
and mirth
By
VII
at,
and
flight of sin.
my garden grows,
you
Make bread of it and that repose
And peace which every where
With so much earnestness you do pursue
Take
And grows
for
Is
46.
The Pulley
When God
Having a
Let
only there.
Us
at
first
made man,
(said
all
we can
378
lie,
APPENDIX
HENRY VAUGHAN'S "SILEX
SCINTILLANS"
The Sap
There
is
beyond the
stars
an
hill
On
the Prince of
it
To
Salem
sits,
of myrrh,
fall
Who
here
deals
He
Yet lived
From
that
hill to this
vale;
Such
secret
life
It will
and
virtue in
exalt
and
it lies,
rise.
And
And
Or ready
to be
.
dead
.
The Pursuit
Lord
light.
APPENDIX
GEORGE HERBERT'S "THE TEMPLE"
So strength first made a way
Then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honour, pleasure:
When almost all was out, God made a stay,
Perceiving that, alone of
all
his treasure,
May
toss
him
to
My
breast.
Giddiness
I
is man
how far from power.
From settled peice and rest
some twenty several men at least
He
is
Each
several hour.
With
his desires.
380
APPENDIX
HENRY VAUGHAN'S "SILEX
SCINTILLANS"
keeps a commerce
He
With
in the
night
air disguised.
Nor home
desired.
Man
11
would, said
The
Ill
my God
would give
man
for these
ever cleave.
care
But ever
About
IV
I,
He
restless
this earth
knocks at
Man
And
God
is
all
and
their peace.
place
is tied,
irregular
ride.
doors, strays
and roams
the shuttle, to
rest.
APPENDIX
GEORGE HERBERT'S "THE TEMPLE"
47.
in
Self- Condemnation
He
made a
that hath
Between
sorry wedding
and gold, and hath preferred
his soul
And
48.
\\\
a Judas-Jew.
is
Whitsunday
Lord, though
The same
we change, Thou
sweet
God
Unto
49.
his ancient
art the
same,
and light
Thy great name,
of love
and miraculous
right.
Longing
Indeed, the world
Where
all
's
Thy
book.
Hath
50.
Lvi
interlined.
Shoots higher
Who aimeth
much
at the sky.
than he that means a tree.
382
APPENDIX
HENRY VAUGHAN'S
"SI LEX
SCINTILLANS"
Rules and Lessons
VIII
To God,
If priests
Who
Religion,
sells
is
a Judas-Jew;
WkUe Sunday
we hourly breathe decays,
our best note and highest ease
Is but mere changing of the keys,
And a consumption that doth please
XI For, though
And
XII Yet
Whose
X And
One
So
yet, as in Night's
in this last
Thy
may
silent star
gloomy page
interline
ancient love on
shine.
The Timber
V But
this
Means only
(
B 269
those
who
broke, in
383
life,
thy peace.
2
APPENDIX
GEORGE HERBERT'S "THE TEMPLE
Praise
I
(iii)
Lord,
will
Thy
praise,
praise alone.
True Hym7i
My
Somewhat
fain
it
would
all
the day,
say,
The Answer
As a young
Scorns his
first
bed of
dirt
sky.
Co7itent
51.
VI
The brags
of
life
Life
52.
I
made a
Here
will
smell
My life
my remnant
within this
out,
band
and
tie
My
I
took, without
Who
384
APPENDIX
HENRY VAUGHAN'S "SILEX
SCINTILLANS"
And do
Ill
they
Sometimes
I sit
An hour
Thy
The Garland
To whom
Or some
a falHng star
frail
and nine-days'
glory,
noting well
my
vain abear,
38s
APPENDIX
GEORGE HERBERT'S "THE TEMPLE"
53.
Easter
I
got
got
And
54.
The Thanksgiving
Shall
55.
The Quip
agree
its
triads of eight-
Sunday.
57.
Constancy
is
clearly the
model of
58.
and
all
are clear
and
straight.
X Were
an epicure,
(Where 'epicure'
curean
',
'
is
pleasure-seeker
386
'.)
APPENDIX
HENRY VAUGHAN'S "SILEX
SCINTILLANS"
Palm-Sunday
tree,
thee.
I '11
get
I '11
cut
The Feast
XI
thorny crown
soft than down
More
painful Cross,
my
bed of
rest
The Ornament
lucky World showed me one day
Her gorgeous mart and glittering store,
The
Where
To
made way
Vaughan's Trinity
Righteousness
V
Whose
acts, words,
and pretence
The World
in
(i)
The downright
epicure placed
387
Heaven
in sense.
APPENDIX
GEORGE HERBERT'S "THE TEMPLE'
Herbert seems to have taught Vaughan his
59.
own
creature.
Constancy
Who, when he
VI
With
is
to treat
sick folks,
Allows for
Home
VII
What
woman-kind, which
is this
Into a blackness
60.
and
can wink
distaste?
Life
III
And
after
death
ornament,
for cures.
Providence
XX A
is
a cure
The Rose
V What
WTiat
is fairer
is
than a rose?
sweeter? yet
The parson
ing,
it
purgeth.
and
useth damask, or white roses for loosplantain, shepherd's purse, knot-grass for
binding.
388
APPENDIX
HENRY VAUGHAN'S "SILEX
SCINTILLANS"
mediseval notion of
woman
as a foolish
and unholy
The Stone
I can bribe, and woman
Consent to any gainful ill,
Man
will
Childhood
And
Death
V As harmless violets, which give
Their virtues here
this idea in
"The
' 403]
389
live,
nor fear:
First Anniversary'
APPENDIX
GEORGE HERBERT'S "THE TEMPLE"
6i.
The Flower
Who
Where
they together
Dead
62.
to the world,
and
makes
'inn', 'proverb', 'coffin', 'primrose', and
'Inn', howthe sense of 'infuses blood').
Herbert converts
Verse and
63.
in
'
sugar
'
The Size
Call to
VIII
An
earthly globe.
On whose
64.
The Collar
Sure there was wine
Before
Is the
Have
No
corn
me?
390
APPENDIX
HENRY VAUGHAN'S
"
SILEX
SCINTILLANS"
/ walked the other day,
3
saw the
Many
in
blood
'
grow out;
there slrow;
now
losses
The Nose.
Vaughan
follows this
(which
in
ever, is a verb of
example
in /d/e
'crumb',
The Morning Watch is used in
to
all
Such
my hour
And by and by
warm recluse alone to lie,
Where fresh and green
He lived of us unseen.
Did
But
spend
to
as 'heaven',
Donne's coining.
The Prober
VI II
A
'
If these
be
fair,
what
is
Heaven
'.
The Tempest
Life
's
And
it;
what?
shall straw
Must he nor
To crown
sip,
391
dreams be
his
law?
The present
is
To meet
the requirements of
spelling has
italic
and of
capital
letters
W.
393
A. L. B.
NOTES
THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE
P^
The
'teiitet'.
is
'tentat'.
But Vaughan's own translation should stir makes it probable that 'tentat' is a slip of the pen or a printer's err^-r
'
'
for
tentet
'
'.
/. 11.
'
True
Hymn
'.
This
all
the
title
of a
poem
'My Joy, my
Life,
in
Herbert's
my Crown!'
Regeneration.
/. 25.
'
is
begins
the. ear
'.
That
is
'
all
by
Death: a dialogue.
/. 28.
'travailled'.
This seems
to be the
Isaacs Marriage.
/. 44.
The variae
mark the sole
Part
lier
I)
poem
practically
Lines 11-14:
" But being for a bride, sure, prayer was
Very strange stuff wherewith to court thy lass
Hadst ne'er an oath nor compliment? Thou wert
An odd
coarse suitor."
395
NOTES
Line 19:
"When
sin,
by sinning
oft,
had not
lost
sense".
Lines 35 and 36
Her
womb
moist
One
'.
'
give
'
The
first
his moist
womb
'
Silex
'.
p. 66.
'
',
'
',
'
'.
/. 67.
'one
Twenty
'.
That
'
'neer'
'
'.
The reading
is
/. 81.
'discuss'.
is
is,
Vanity 0/ Spirit.
/. 70.
used
That
is,
in its original
'
Storm.
antagonism or
'
'
discord
'.
'Discuss'
Latin sense.
'
'
'
NOTES
/. 96.
reference
(S.
is
Luke,
xvi. 20),
as an invaluable
explain
'
whose
afflicted state
'
'.
But I cannot
Lazarus of Bethany was
to be buried.
/. 96.
I will be my own death's-head '.
In seventeenth-century
plays there are frequent references to the custom of wearing
Death's-heads in rings, a morbid and deliberate speculation
'
but a Death's-head".
The Resolve.
p- 105.
That
'sp.in up'.
out'.
'9'
'measure
is,
far-day
That
'.
is,
'
the
day
far
advanced
'
',
the heat of
the day'.
"9-
/
'
fell
Corruption.
'.
/. 120.
lieger
That is, a permanent as distinct from an extraordinary ambassador.
'
M4
'
Faith.
spans up'.
rise'.
is,
'
measures
out',
TAe Sap.
195'
That
397
'
is
NOTES
White Sunday.
p. 219.
interline
'
trive to
'.
appear
That
is,
'
'
con-
'.
p. 220.
Balaam's
'
Balaam
liire
and
17
'.
rejected:
That
is,
"promotion
to
full
Cf.
Numbers,
xxii.
18.
7Vi Proffer.
p. 222.
with your Commonwealth'. This is one of the few references which Vaughan makes to the Civil War and to the
Republican rule. In 'The Author's Preface' he says: "I
'
'
to
and in
Crom-
and
indefinite.
'
stanza of
Cock-crowing.
/. 224.
'
is
said to be de-
'
'
text
is
'
impowre ',
'in-pour'.
The Timber.
p. 250.
'
'
him from
sin
398
make man
virginal, that
NOTES
The Jews.
p. 251.
'And
sure
That
not far'.
is
it
is,
deUverer'.
Begging.
253-
The
But
'
the
is
'
of
.>.pelliiig
I
do not go'.
which the printer uniformly
aye
'
'
'
adopts.
'
That
is,
Ismael.
Fiihii-SunJay.
/. 355.
'
'
'
'
'
'
'
Jesus Weeping.
/. 263.
'
As
swan-like '.
IMr.
Chambers
is
a double
'
and
to
Olor Iscanus'
The Ontamciit.
/. 268.
That
'Syrian maid'.
The
'one'.
'we',
Rebekah.
it
is,
'
'you' of the
it
'
'.
280.
'And
led
four lines
twice.
'
by
And
my own
led
foolish tire'.
.
thrall" are,
mis-spelliiigs,
{
by a blunder, printed
B 269
399
NOTES
Childhood.
p. 296.
Dazzles'.
'
An
2.
"Cover
Aiel's Blood.
p. 307.
Hebrews,
Cf.
xii.
24.
/. 316.
'
'
in 'Christ's Victory
'
.A-bout
',
'
11
Pcnseroso
',
1.
35.
The Wreath.
/. 332.
Breeds' seems
in the most vain '.
be used in an intransitive sense, and the whole line is
most likely a parenthesis meaning and this sadness is bred
in the most vain '.
'
'
to
'
T/ie
/. 334.
'Did
live'.
The
original
Book.
text reads 'liee', probably a
L'Envoy.
/. 338.
'
'.
The
'
travel
',
but,
a dialogue
',
stanza
4, p. 28.
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