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 | Emblemes (1635) and Hieroglyphikes (1638) |  |
Lighten mine eyes, O Lord, lest I sleepe the sleepe of death.
Wil't nere be morning? Will that promis'd light
Nere breake, and cleare these Clouds of night?
Sweet Phospher bring the day,
Whose conqu'ring Ray
May chase these fogges; Sweet Phospher bring the day.
Nere breake, and cleare these Clouds of night?
Sweet Phospher bring the day,
Whose conqu'ring Ray
May chase these fogges; Sweet Phospher bring the day.
How long! how long shall these benighted eyes
Languish in shades, like feeble Flies
Expecting Spring! How long shall darknesse soyle
The face of earth, and thus beguile
Our soules of rightfull action? when will day
Begin to dawne, whose new-borne Ray
May gild the Wether-cocks of our devotion,
And give our unsoul'd soules new motion?
Sweet Phospher bring the day,
Thy light will fray
These horrid Mists; Sweet Phospher bring the day.
Languish in shades, like feeble Flies
Expecting Spring! How long shall darknesse soyle
The face of earth, and thus beguile
Our soules of rightfull action? when will day
Begin to dawne, whose new-borne Ray
May gild the Wether-cocks of our devotion,
And give our unsoul'd soules new motion?
Sweet Phospher bring the day,
Thy light will fray
These horrid Mists; Sweet Phospher bring the day.
Let those have night, that slily love t'immure
Their cloysterd Crimes, and sinne secure;
Let those have night that blush to let men know
The basenesse they nere blush to do;
Let those have night, that love to take a Nappe
And loll in Ignorances lappe;
Let those, whose eyes, like Oules abhorre the light,
Let those have Night that love the Night;
Sweet Phospher bring the day;
How sad delay
Afflicts dull hopes! Sweet Phospher bring the day.
Their cloysterd Crimes, and sinne secure;
Let those have night that blush to let men know
The basenesse they nere blush to do;
Let those have night, that love to take a Nappe
And loll in Ignorances lappe;
Let those, whose eyes, like Oules abhorre the light,
Let those have Night that love the Night;
Sweet Phospher bring the day;
How sad delay
Afflicts dull hopes! Sweet Phospher bring the day.
Alas! my light-invaine-expecting eyes
Can finde no Objects but what rise
From this poore morall blaze, a dying sparke
Of Vulcans forge, whose flames are darke
And dangerous, a dull blue burning light,
As melancholly as the night:
Here's all the Sunnes that glister in the Spheare
Of earth: Ah mee! what comfort's here:
Sweet Phospher bring the day;
Haste, haste away,
Heav'ns loytring lampe; Sweet Phospher bring the day.
Can finde no Objects but what rise
From this poore morall blaze, a dying sparke
Of Vulcans forge, whose flames are darke
And dangerous, a dull blue burning light,
As melancholly as the night:
Here's all the Sunnes that glister in the Spheare
Of earth: Ah mee! what comfort's here:
Sweet Phospher bring the day;
Haste, haste away,
Heav'ns loytring lampe; Sweet Phospher bring the day.
Blow Ignorance, O thou, whose idle knee
Rocks earth into a Lethargie,
And with thy sooty fingers hast bedight
The worlds faire cheekes, blow, blow thy spite;
Since thou hast pufft our greater Tapour doe
Puffe on, and out the lesser too:
If ere that breath-exiled flame returne,
Thou hast not blowne, as it will burne:
Sweete Phospher bring the day
Light will repay
The wrongs of night: Sweet Phosper bring the day.
Rocks earth into a Lethargie,
The worlds faire cheekes, blow, blow thy spite;
Since thou hast pufft our greater Tapour doe
Puffe on, and out the lesser too:
If ere that breath-exiled flame returne,
Thou hast not blowne, as it will burne:
Sweete Phospher bring the day
Light will repay
The wrongs of night: Sweet Phosper bring the day.
S. AUGUST. in Joh. ser. 19.
God is a all to thee; If thou be hungry, hee is bread; If thirstie, hee is water; If in darkness, hee is light; If naked hee is a Robe of Immortalitie.
ALANUS de conq. nat.
God is a light that is never darkned; An unwearied life, that cannot die; a Fountaine alwaies flowing; a garden of life; a Seminary of wisdome, a radicall beginning of all goodnesse.
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