As Phenix-like renew'th

Both life and youth;

For a preserving spirit doth still passe
Untainted through this masse,
Which doth resolve, produce, and ripen all
That to it fall;

Nor are those births, which we
Thus suffering see,

Destroy'd at all; but when Time's restles wave
Their substance doth deprave,1

And the more noble essence finds his house

Sickly, and loose,

He, ever young, doth wing
Unto that spring,

And source of spirits, where he takes his lot,
Till Time no more shall rot

His passive cottage; which-though laid asideLike some spruce' bride,

Shall one day rise, and cloath'd with shining light

1

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impair. For a historically important use of the word, see our edn. of the Works of DR. RICHARD SIBBES s. v. For more on the text cf. also our Memorial-Introduction. G.

2 Nice, neat: has a deteriorated meaning now. MILTON has it in COMUS, line 985 "revels the spruce and jocond Spring." G.

All pure, and bright,

Re-marry to the soule; for 'tis most plaine
Thou only fal'st to be refin'd againe.

3.

That I that here saw darkly in a glasse

But mists, and shadows passe,

And, by their owne weake shine, did search the

springs

And course of things,

Shall with inlightned rayes

Peirce all their wayes;

And as thou saw'st, I in a thought could goe
To Heav'n, or Earth below

To reade some starre, or minʼrall, and in state
There often sate;

So shalt thou then with me,

-Both wing'd and free,

Rove in that mighty and eternall light,
Where no rude shade, or night

Shall dare approach us; we shall there no more
Watch stars, or pore

Through melancholly clouds, and say,
Would it were Day!'

One everlasting Saboth there shall runne
Without succession, and without a sunne.

DANIEL] CAP. 12. VER. 13.

But goe thou thy way untill the end be, for thou

shalt rest, and stand up in thy lot, at the end of the

dayes.

DAY OF JUDGEMENT.

HEN through the North a fire shall rush

And rowle into the East,

And like a firie torrent brush

And sweepe up South and West,—

When all shall streame and lighten round,
And with surprizing flames

Both stars and elements confound,

And quite blot out their names,

When thou shalt spend Thy sacred store
Of thunders in that heate,

And low as ere they lay before

Thy six-dayes' buildings beate,—

When like a scrowle the heavens shal passe
And vanish cleane away,

And nought must stand of that vast space
Which held up night, and day,-

When

When one lowd blast shall rend the deepe,

And from the wombe of Earth

Summon up all that are asleepe

Unto a second birth,—

When Thou shalt make the clouds Thy seate,
And in the open aire

The quick1 and dead, both small and great,
Must to Thy barre repaire ;

O then it wilbe all too late

To say, 'What shall I doe?'

Repentance there is out of date,
VAnd so is Mercy too.

Prepare, prepare me then, O God!
And let me now begin

To feele my loving father's rod
Killing the man of sinne!

Give me, O give me crosses here,
Still more afflictions lend;

That pill, though bitter, is most deare
That brings health in the end.

Lord, God! I beg nor friends, nor wealth,
But pray against them both;

Three things I'de have, my soule's chief health,
And one of these same loath:2

1 'Living': see Mr. W. A. Wright's Bible WordBook. s. v. G.

2 On the suggestion of my friend Dr. Brinsley Nicholson, I have substituted' same' here for 'seme' which Mr. Lyte had altered to 'semed'. The Poet wishes for three

A living faith, a heart of flesh,

The world an enemie;

This last will keepe the first two fresh,
And bring me where I'de be.

1 PET[ER] 4. 7.

The end of all things is at hand; be ye therefore sober, and watching into prayer.

M

RELIGION.

Y God, when I walke in those groves
And leaves, Thy Spirit doth still fan,

I see in each shade that there growes

An angell talking with a man.

Under a juniper, some house,
Or the coole mirtle's canopie;

Others beneath an oake's greene boughs,
Or at some fountaine's bubling eye.

Here Jacob dreames, and wrestles ; there
Elias by a raven is fed;

Another time by th' angell, where

He brings him water with his bread.

things, faith, a heart and the world, giving them each an attribute, and one of these same [the world] I would loathe'. Seme, or semed, or seem, yields no intelligible sense. G.