The Minor Poems of Joseph Beaumont ... Edited from the autograph manuscript with introduction and notes by Eloise Robinson |
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Vs. 3Lo heer
This Myrrh
Its spicey duty
T' Attend the Beuty
Of thy humane Nature offers:
In this
Express
To Thee her royal
Soverain, thy loyal
Arabia all her Gardins profers.
Cho.
Yf Thou own'st Thou wilt thereby
Her Stile of HAPPY ratifie.
Vs. I.
But to my Offring I did join
My heart.
(Vs. 2.)
As I.
(Vs. 3.)
And I did mine.
Vs. I.
No longer mine, but Thine.
(Vs. 2.)
For He
Has none, who has it not in Thee.
Vs. 3.
Yet I am more of mine possest,
Than when 'twas lost in mine own breast.
Cho.
And though our Gifts all worthless are,
Accept, sweet Lord, what We preferr.
So in thy debt We more shall be,
Receiving, whilst We give to Thee.
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