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Page 149 - thy sake) Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine: Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes that and th' action fine. This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold : For that which God doth touch and own Cannot for less be told. A WREATH. A
Page 71 - Sweet Rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My Music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. I Only a sweet and virtuous soul,
Page xxiv - More servants wait on Man, Than hell take notice of: in every path He treads down that which doth befriend him, When sickness makes him pale and wan. Oh, mighty love ! Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him." How strikingly do these words bring before us the
Page 129 - While thou didst wink and wouldst not see. Away ; take heed : I will abroad. Call in thy death's-head there : tie up thy fears. He that forbears To suit and serve his need, Deserves his load. But as I raved and grew more fierce and wild ,-i At every word,
Page 149 - Ah, my dear, I cannot look on thee. Love took my hand, and smiling did reply, Who made the eyes but I \ Truth, Lord, but I have marr'd them : let my shame Go where it doth deserve. And know you not, says Love,
Page 23 - SIN. LORD, with what care hast thou begirt us round! Parents first season us : then schoolmasters Deliver us to laws ; they send us bound To rules of reason, holy messengers, Pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, Afflictions sorted, anguish of all
Page 28 - CHO. LET all the world in every corner sing, My God and King. VER. The heavens are not too high, His praise may thither fly : The earth is not too low, His praises there may grow. CHO. Let all the world in every corner sing, My God and King.
Page 83 - Arise, sad heart ; if thou dost not withstand, Christ's resurrection thine may be : Do not by hanging down break from the hand, Which, as it riseth, raiseth thee : Arise, arise ; And with his burial-linen dry thine eyes. Christ left his grave-clothes, that we might, when grief Draws tears, or blood, not want a handkerchief. JESU.
Page 129 - Contract into a span. So strength first made a way ; Then beauty flow'd, then wisdom, honour, pleasure: When almost all was out, God made a stay^ ^Perceiving that alone, of all his treasure,
Page 129 - I live to show his power, who once did bring My joys to weep, and now my griefs to sing. THE PULLEY. WHEN God at first. made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by