Piety, and Poesy Contracted, In a Poetick Miscellanie of Sacred Poems. By Tho: Jordan |
Thoughts of Life and Death, written upon the occasion, ex tempore.
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Piety, and Poesy | ||
Thoughts of Life and Death, written upon the occasion, ex tempore.
I never look on Life, but with a loathing,When it is sterril, and conduceth nothing
To my Eternal Being; but when I
Find it devoted to the Deity,
To love my Neighbour, and obey that State
Which God hath made next, and immediate
Under his sacred Power; when I have will
To Forgive him that doth me greatest ill;
To calm my Passions, to content my Friends,
And do no Acts that savour of self-ends,
Then I love Life; but wanting this, I have
No joy, but to exchange it for a Grave.
Piety, and Poesy | ||