The Minor Poems of Joseph Beaumont ... Edited from the autograph manuscript with introduction and notes by Eloise Robinson |
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The Gardin
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The Gardin
June 12.
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The Gardins quit with me: as yesterdayI walked in that, to day that walks in me;
Through all my memorie
It sweetly wanders, & has found a way
To make me honestly possess
What still Anothers is.
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Yet this Gains dainty sence doth gall my MindeWith the remembrance of a bitter Loss.
Alas, how odd & cross
Are earths Delights, in which the Soule can finde
No Honey, but withall some Sting
To check the pleasing thing!
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For now I'm hanted with the thought of thatHeavn-planted Gardin, where felicitie
Flourishd on every Tree.
Lost, lost it is; for at the guarded gate
A flaming Sword forbiddeth Sin
(That's I,) to enter in.
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O Paradise! when I was turned outHadst thou but kept the Serpent still within,
My banishment had been
Less sad & dangerous: but round about
This wide world runneth rageing He
To banish me from me:
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I feel that through my soule he death hath shott;And thou, alas, hast locked up Lifes Tree.
O Miserable Me,
What help were left, had JESUS'S Pity not
Shewd me another Tree, which can
Enliven dying Man.
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That Tree, made Fertile by his own dear blood;And by his Death with quickning virtue fraught.
I now dread not the thought
Of barracado'd Eden, since as good
A Paradise I planted see
On open Calvarie.
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