A Collection of Miscellanies Consisting of Poems, Essays, Discourses & Letters, Occasionally Written. By John Norris ... The Second Edition Corrected |
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Love.
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Imperial Passion! Sacred fire!When we of meaner Subjects sing,
Thou tune'st our Harps, thou dost our Souls inspire,
'Tis Love directs the Quill, 'tis Love strikes every string.
But where's another Deity
T' inspire the man that sings of thee?
II
W' are by mistaken Chymists toldThat the most active part of all
The various Compound cast in Nature's mould
Is that which they Mercurial spirit call.
But sure 'tis Love they should have said,
Without this even their Spirit is Dead.
III
Love's the great Spring of Nature's wheel,Love does the Mass pervade and move,
What 'scapes the Sun's, does thy Warm influence feel,
The Universe is kept in tune by Love.
Thou Nature giv'st her Sympathy,
The Center has its Charm from thee.
IV
Love did great Nothing's barren wombImpregnate with his genial fire;
From this first Parent did all Creatures come,
Th' Almighty will'd, and made all by Desire.
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The third subsistence is from thee.
V
The Happiest Order of the BlestAre those whose Tide of Love's most high,
The bright Seraphick Host; who're more possest
Of good, because more like the Deity.
T' him they advance as they improve
Their noble heat, for God is Love.
VI
Shall then a Passion so DivineStoop down and Mortal Beauties know?
Nature's great Statute Law did ne're design
That Heavenly fire should kindle here below;
Let it ascend and dwell above,
The proper Element of Love.
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