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Silex Scintillans

or Sacred Poems and Priuate Eiaculations: By Henry Vaughan

Vaughan, Henry (1622-1695)

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The Dedication.

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Resurrection and Immortality

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Day of Judgement.

Isaacs Marriage.

The Brittish Church.

Mans fall, and Recovery.

Mount of Olives.

The Incarnation, and Passion.

[Thou that know'st for whom I mourne]

Vanity of Spirit.

[Come, come, what doe I here?]

[Joy of my life! while left me here]

The Morning-watch.

The Evening-watch.

[Silence, and stealth of dayes! 'tis now]

Church-Service.

[Sure, there's a tye of Bodyes! and as they]

[And do they so? have they a Sense]

Rules and Lessons.

Unprofitablenes.

Christs Nativity.

Disorder and frailty.

The Burial Of an Infant.

The Holy Communion.

Love, and Discipline.

The Pilgrimage.

The Law, and the Gospel.

The Constellation.

The Shepheards.

Mount of Olives.

[I walkt the other day (to spend my hour,)]

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3.

Then I that here saw darkly in a glasse
But mists, and shadows passe,

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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 Min'rall, 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
Mould it were Day!
One everlasting Saboth there shall runne
Without Succession, and without a Sunne.