Prison-Pietie or, Meditations Divine and Moral. Digested into Poetical Heads, On Mixt and Various Subjects. Whereunto is added A Panegyrick to The Right Reverend, and most Nobly descended, Henry, Lord Bishop of London. By Samuel Speed, Prisoner in Ludgate, London |
On Love and Hatred. |
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On Love and Hatred.
I Love too much, to hate what I should love;I love too much, to love what I should hate.
My Love and Hatred in wrong Centres move,
Such hateful love, God doth abominate.
I love not Goodness, neither hate I Evil:
My Hate to Vertue's hot, to Vice is cold.
I love too little God, too much the Devil;
My Love and Hate, wrong Objects do behold.
Lord, change my Love to Hate, my Hate to Love,
That so thy Justice may of both approve.
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