The Amaranth Or, religious poems; consisting of fables, visions, emblems, etc. Adorned with copper-plates from the best masters [by Walter Harte] |
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No man at once two
Edens can enjoy
:
Nor earth and Heav'n the self-same mind employ.
Two diff'rent ways th'unsocial objects draw:
Flesh strives with Spirit, Nature combats Law:
Reason and Revelation live at strife,
Tho' meant for mutual aid, like man and wife. .
Nor earth and Heav'n the self-same mind employ.
Two diff'rent ways th'unsocial objects draw:
Flesh strives with Spirit, Nature combats Law:
Reason and Revelation live at strife,
Tho' meant for mutual aid, like man and wife. .
Religion and the world can ne'er agree:
One eye is sacrific'd, that one may see.
Canals, for pleasure made, with pleasure stray;
But drain at length the middle stream away.
One eye is sacrific'd, that one may see.
Canals, for pleasure made, with pleasure stray;
But drain at length the middle stream away.
“It is not only difficult but impossible to enjoy Heaven here and hereafter; or, in other words, to live in pleasure and dissipation, and at the same time attain spiritual happiness. No man hath passed from one Paradise to another: No man hath been the mirror of felicity in both worlds, nor shone with equal glory in earth and in heaven.” Hieron.
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