A paraphrase upon the canticles and some select hymns of the New and Old Testament, with other occasional compositions in English verse. By Samuel Woodford |
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EPIGRAM
When my God Di'd, I first began to Live,And Life which he refus'd Heav'n me did give
Unlike that Day, O how unlike we were!
Him dead the Cross, me 'alive the Knees did bear.
But may not I die too? This life of mine
I can as well as Thou dispise, if not like Thine.
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A double Life, then to Thy Death I'll owe:
And sanctifi'd thus in my Birth by Thee,
A living Death, my dying Life shall be.
5. Decemb. 1668.
| A paraphrase upon the canticles | |