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Poems

By Thomas Philipott

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On my selfe being sicke of a Feaver.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

On my selfe being sicke of a Feaver.

Lord, I confesse, I do not know
Whether my dust shall yet, or no,
I'th furnace of this Feaver, be
Calcin'd into Eternitie:
Whether through this red Sea of blood,
Which in such a swelling flood
From the unsluced channell ran,
I shall passe o're to Canaan:
Or that these sweats shall wash away
From off my soule that heap of clay,
In which, as in some narrow shell,
She, like some lazie snaile, did dwell:

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If it be now thy fatall doome,
That I must melt into a Tomb,
There by the last dayes fire once more
To be made refined Ore,
And so receive thy stamp agin,
No more to be raz'd out by sin;
And that this Flame I glow with, shall
Into my hollow Marble fall,
Then warme my soule with heavenly fire,
That as these smokie heats expire,
I being wing'd with that may flie
Vp to Immortalitie.