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Divine Fancies

Digested into Epigrammes, Meditations, and Observations. By Fra: Quarles
Quarles, Francis (1592-1644)
  
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64. On Ioy and Griefe.

Lord, if my Griefes were not oppos'd with Ioy
They would destroy:
And if my Mirth were not allayd with Sadnesse,
It would be Madnesse:
While this, with that; or that, with this contends
They're both my Friends;
But when these happy Warres doe chance to cease,
I have no peace:
The more my earthly Passions doe contest,
The more my heavenly' Affections are at rest.
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