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[VVeak chains, bind flesh and bloud, and tie]
I will pierce heaven with my mind, and be present with thee in my desires.
Aug. Manual. cap. 14.
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VVeak chains, bind flesh and bloud, and tieLethargick sense;
You cannot impede me, when I flie
Hurried away from hence
You shall not clog me, but my raised flight
Shall bring me to my wish't for height.
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Where am I now convaid? oh howMy winged feet
Spurn all those golden lamps that glow
Beneath, with night beset!
Nay (a strange pilgrim) I securely run
In paths that lie above the sun.
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Swell heart into a world and keepThat humid sea:
Become, my bosome, one great deep
That it may lodge in Thee:
That glorious sun with his Celestiall heat
That will warm't, and mak't evaporate.
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Spring-head of life, how am I nowIntomb'd in Thee?
How do I since th'art pleas'd to flow,
Hate a dualitie?
How I am annihilated? yet by this
Acknowledge my subsistence is
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Still may I rise; still further climeTill that I lie
(Having out-run-short-winded time)
Swath'd in Eternitie:
So may my youth spend and renue, so night
Never alternate with my light.
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But should my God withdraw awhileHis glorious face
Yet would not I my self beguile
But with a strickt embrace
So closely joyn with him, that wheresoere
He were, I would strive to be there.
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Nay should he strike me down so lowAs hell, yet I
Would grasp him: He is there I know:
He in those depths doth lie
So should I surfet on all happiness;
'Tis solely heaven where he is.
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Epigram 14.
What is Mans body? clay, or lead his soul?The nimblest swiftest substance that can roul
It self ere thought; and by its power bring down,
Or mount to heaven, and so mak't its own.
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