Mundorum Explicatio or, The Explanation of an Hieroglyphical Figure: Wherein are couched the Mysteries of the External, Internal, and Eternal Worlds, shewing the true progress of a Soul from the Court of Jerusalem; from the Adamical fallen state to the Regenerate and Angelical. Being A Sacred Poem, written by S. P. [i.e. Samuel Pordage] |
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The Stygian Princes bow their snaky heads,
And Joy their Captain in their Faces reads:
Io they hisse, and from their sulph'ry throats,
Belch out ten thousand loud confused notes.
Then from their Centre thousand Myriads go,
Of teter Stygian Bands, where here below,
The Earth, the ayr, and the vast hollownesse
Betwixt the Cerurle sky, and Earth possesse
They do: And all combin'd are to annoy
Man, and his Soul immortal to destroy.
Black Death triumphing with a sable Bow,
The Earth with armes displayed marcheth too:
Where murthering Hag, her skilful hand to try,
With fatal Darts made Abel's life to flye:
The first that ever yielded mortal breath;
The first that ever felt the Dart of Death.
And thus this World her misery indu'd
Which guilty Adam's crime, and Sin pursu'd.
And Joy their Captain in their Faces reads:
Io they hisse, and from their sulph'ry throats,
Belch out ten thousand loud confused notes.
Then from their Centre thousand Myriads go,
Of teter Stygian Bands, where here below,
The Earth, the ayr, and the vast hollownesse
Betwixt the Cerurle sky, and Earth possesse
They do: And all combin'd are to annoy
Man, and his Soul immortal to destroy.
Black Death triumphing with a sable Bow,
The Earth with armes displayed marcheth too:
Where murthering Hag, her skilful hand to try,
With fatal Darts made Abel's life to flye:
The first that ever yielded mortal breath;
The first that ever felt the Dart of Death.
And thus this World her misery indu'd
Which guilty Adam's crime, and Sin pursu'd.
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