A garden of graue and godlie flowers Sonets, elegies, and epitaphs. Planted, polished, and perfected: By Mr. Alexander Gardyne |
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VPON THE DEATH OF THE WORSHIPFULL M. Alex. Cheyn Commisser of Aber. |
A garden of graue and godlie flowers | ||
VPON THE DEATH OF THE WORSHIPFULL M. Alex. Cheyn Commisser of Aber.
Now now, at last, and nought, while now haue I,Put a Catastroph, to this course of cair,
World, Flesh, and Feind, your forces J defie,
Your works are wrought, your mights may nowe no mair,
Now I am quit, and from your cummers clair,
Graue, Hell, and Sinne, your powers J despise,
Death is the dore, through Faith ye step, and stair,
That makes my soule, mount, sore, and skall the skies,
Albeit the bones, left here consuming lies,
Yet certainly, J am assur'd they shall,
To rest and ring, in their Redeemer rise,
Since Sathan, Sinne, the graue, death, hell and all,
That Lyon strong, and yet a louing Lamb,
Tryumphantly, vpon the crosse o'rcame.
A garden of graue and godlie flowers | ||