The Minor Poems of Joseph Beaumont ... Edited from the autograph manuscript with introduction and notes by Eloise Robinson |
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A Preparatory Hymne to the Week of
Meditacions upon, & Devout Exercise
in the Historie of Christ; composed
for my Friend
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A Preparatory Hymne to the Week of Meditacions upon, & Devout Exercise in the Historie of Christ; composed for my Friend
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No Days, nor Weeks, must IAccount, but by
The Revolutions of LOVE:
LOVE is the Sunn
Whose Flame alone
In My Soules loyal Orb shall move.
2
Rebellious is each HoureWhich doth not poure
The homage of its highest Praise
In a full Stream
On LOVES dear Name;
That Name, wch Heavn with Bliss arrays.
3
LOVE is my King, & IHold onely by
His Grace's royal Charter: He
Right nobly gave
Me all I have;
And, what is more, gave Me to Me.
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4
Me! What am I! vile I!LOVE scorneth by
So poor a Gift, to bound his Grace:
Himself on Me
Illustrious He
By his brave Self bestowed was.
5
And is not my poor TimeAll due to Him?
To bounteous Him, who offers Me
The soverain treasures,
And boundless pleasures
Of his supreem Eternitie?
6
Due, more then due it is:And I by his
Exploits of Grace henceforth will raise
My Soule to frame
A better Name
For all my consecrated Days.
7
No other Gods I'l seekTo fill my Week:
LOVE, nothing else but LOVE alone.
Is of extent
Sufficient
To swell my Weeks dimension.
8
From Morn to Evening IThe History
Of LOVE through all my houres will spread;
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My Trade is LOVE,
With LOVE I'l Rise, & Goe to bed.
9
From LOVE's poor Cratch, my RaceI'l gin, & trace
His noble Acts, untill I see
Him mounted on
His erned Throne
Of Glorie's bright Sublimitie.
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And when I thus have broughtMy Week about;
I'l to his Cratch again, & move
With restless Rest
From East to West
In none but in the Sphear of LOVE.
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So I in Him, & HeDeliciouslie
Shall move in Me: So shall not I,
Though heer I breathe
On Earth beneath,
Think Heavn above my head doth ly.
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