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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Thanksgivings for the Beauty of his Providence.
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These sweeter far than Lillies are,No Roses may with these compare!
How these excel
No Tongue can tell!
Which he that well and truly knows,
With praise and joy he goes.
How great and happy's he, that knows his Ways,
To be divine and heavenly Joys!
To whom each City is more brave,
Than Walls of Pearl, and Streets which Gold doth pave:
Whose open eyes
Behold the Skies;
Who loves their Wealth and Beauty more,
Than Kings love golden Ore!
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Who sees the heavenly antient Ways,Of GOD the Lord, with Joy and Praise;
More than the Skies,
With open Eyes,
Doth prize them all: yea more than Gems
And Regal Diadems.
That more esteemeth Mountains as they are,
Than if they Gold and Silver were:
To whom the SUN more pleasure brings,
Than Crowns and Thrones, and Palaces, to Kings.
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To be the Joys,
And Way of God. These things who knows,
With Joy and Praise he goes!
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