The poetical works of Thomas Traherne faithfully reprinted from the author's original manuscript together with Poems of Felicity reprinted from the Burney manuscript and Poems from Various Sources: Edited with preface and notes by Gladys I. Wade |
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III An Hymne upon St. Bartholomews Day.
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What Powerfull Spirit livs within!What Active Angel doth inhabit here!
What Heavenly Light inspires my Skin;
Which doth so like a Dietie appear!
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Within me see,
A TEMPLE OF ETERNITIE!
All Kingdoms I Descrie
In Me.
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An Inward Omnipresence here,Mysteriously like His with in me stands;
Whose Knowledg is a Sacred Sphere,
That in it self at once Includes all Lands.
There is som ANGEL that within Me can
Both Talk and Move
And Walk and flie and See and love
A Man on Earth, a Man
Above.
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Dull Walls of Clay my SPIRIT leavsAnd in a Forrein Kindom doth appear,
This Great Apostle it receivs,
Admires his Works and sees them, standing here.
Within My Self from East to West I move,
As if I were
At once a CHERUBIM and Sphere,
Or was at once abov,
And here.
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The Soul's a Messenger wherbyWithin our Inward Temple We may be
Even like the very Dietie,
In all the parts of His Eternitie.
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Flesh is but Clay!
O fly my Soul, and haste away
To Jesus THRONE, or CROSS.
Obey!
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