Occasional Verses of Edward Lord Herbert, Baron of Cherbery and Castle-Island Deceased in August, 1648 |
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October 14. 1664.
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October 14. 1664.
Enraging Griefs, though you most divers be,
In your first Causes, you may yet agree
To take an equal share within my heart,
Since if each grief strive for the greatest part,
You needs must vex your selves as well as me.
In your first Causes, you may yet agree
To take an equal share within my heart,
Since if each grief strive for the greatest part,
You needs must vex your selves as well as me.
For your own sakes and mine then make an end,
In vain you do about a Heart contend,
Which though it seem in greatness to dilate,
Is but a tumor, which in this its state
The choicest remedies would but offend.
In vain you do about a Heart contend,
Which though it seem in greatness to dilate,
Is but a tumor, which in this its state
The choicest remedies would but offend.
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Then storm't at once, I neither feel constraint
Scorning your worst, nor suffer any taint
Dying by multitudes, though if you strive,
I fear my heart may thus be kept alive,
Until it under its own burden faint.
Scorning your worst, nor suffer any taint
Dying by multitudes, though if you strive,
I fear my heart may thus be kept alive,
Until it under its own burden faint.
What is't not done? Why then, my God, I find,
Would have me use you to reform my mind:
Since through his help I may from you extract
An essence pure, so spriteful and compact,
As it will be from grosser parts refin'd.
Would have me use you to reform my mind:
Since through his help I may from you extract
An essence pure, so spriteful and compact,
As it will be from grosser parts refin'd.
Which b'ing again converted by his Grace
To godly sorrow, I may both efface
Those sins first caus'd you, and together have
Your pow'r to kill turn'd to a power to save,
And bring my Soul to its desired place.
To godly sorrow, I may both efface
Those sins first caus'd you, and together have
Your pow'r to kill turn'd to a power to save,
And bring my Soul to its desired place.
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