The Minor Poems of Joseph Beaumont ... Edited from the autograph manuscript with introduction and notes by Eloise Robinson |
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The Surrender
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The Surrender
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Oft have I calm'd Misfortunes Deep,And sung my storming Greifs asleep:
But now the Tempests Roar is swelld
Too high to Muse's Voice to yeild:
Or yf it bowes to any Verse,
It must be that wch shall befriend my Herse.
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Alas, my Sorrows were no moreThen could be scanned heertofore!
But Measures now & Numbers be
Themselves no longer unto Me;
Nor can their terminated Might
Deal with those Torments which are Infinite.
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The Soule of this Complaint, to noneIs known, deer Lord, but Thee alone:
Thou seest how lamentable I
In a strange Hell of Sweetness frie:
Thou se'st my Heart & Me all rent
Upon a Rack of Torturing Content.
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Not all this World could hire Me toFlie from this delectable Woe.
Yet yf thy Pleasure be to ease
My deer & pretious Miseries;
Do, mighty Lord; thy Will is best:
I yeild, & will endure to be at Rest.
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I think I yeild: O Jesu trieThe bottome of thy Victory:
O search, & sift this heart, & see
It cheats not Me, nor injur's Thee.
O yf it bends not, break it quite:
That Heart is soundest, wch is most Contrite.
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