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The poetical works of Thomas Traherne

faithfully reprinted from the author's original manuscript together with Poems of Felicity reprinted from the Burney manuscript and Poems from Various Sources: Edited with preface and notes by Gladys I. Wade

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The Image.

If I be like my God, my King,
(Tho not a Cherubim,)
I will not care,
Since all my Pow'rs derived are
From none but Him.
The best of Images shall I
Comprised in Me see;
For I can spy
All Angels in the Deity
Like me to ly.