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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.

Resurrection and Immortality

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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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.

Dan: Cap: 12. ver: 13.