The Pilgrimes New-yeares-Gift or, Fourteene Steps to the Throne of Glory. By the 7. Corporeall and 7. Spirituall Acts of Charitie, and those made Parallels. By Ralph Crane |
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 | The Pilgrimes New-yeares-Gift |  |
Man of polluted lips, dar'st thou aspire
So great a Worke? call for Cælestiall Fire,
Invoke some Holy hand to guide thy Pen,
Some Circumcized heart to teach thee: when
Thou but conceiu'st a Verse, set'st down a line,
Sigh for thy state: weepe for those sins of thine,
(Those Actuall-ones) that Iustice haue call'd down
And caus'd th' Almighty with an angry frowne
Fright Blessednesse from thee: making thy life
A Vale of Miserie, a Den of Strife,
Scarce suffering thee in almost seuentie yeares
See ought but dangers, mischiefes, debts, & feares.
Laying on thy soule such heauynesse, such woe,
As but his Mercy helpe thee, thou must goe
(And speedily) vnto a Graue forlorne,
With Iob complayning thou wert euer borne.
So great a Worke? call for Cælestiall Fire,
Invoke some Holy hand to guide thy Pen,
Some Circumcized heart to teach thee: when
Thou but conceiu'st a Verse, set'st down a line,
Sigh for thy state: weepe for those sins of thine,
(Those Actuall-ones) that Iustice haue call'd down
And caus'd th' Almighty with an angry frowne
Fright Blessednesse from thee: making thy life
A Vale of Miserie, a Den of Strife,
Scarce suffering thee in almost seuentie yeares
See ought but dangers, mischiefes, debts, & feares.
Laying on thy soule such heauynesse, such woe,
As but his Mercy helpe thee, thou must goe
(And speedily) vnto a Graue forlorne,
With Iob complayning thou wert euer borne.
| The Pilgrimes New-yeares-Gift | |