Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political The Eighth Impression. With New and several other Additions Both in Prose and Verse Not Extant in the former Impressions. By Owen Felltham |
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The Face of the Book, Unmasked.
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The Face of the Book, Unmasked.
Here, th' Universe in Natures Frame,
Sustain'd by Truth, and Wisdomes hand,
Does, by Opinions empty Name,
And Ignorance, distracted stand:
Who with strong Cords of vanity, conspire,
Tangling the Totall, with abstruse Desire.
Sustain'd by Truth, and Wisdomes hand,
Does, by Opinions empty Name,
And Ignorance, distracted stand:
Who with strong Cords of vanity, conspire,
Tangling the Totall, with abstruse Desire.
But then the Noble Heart infir'd,
With Rayes, divinely from above,
Mounts (though with wings moist and bemir'd.)
The great Gods glorious Light to prove,
Slighting the World: yet self renouncing, tries,
That where God draws not, there she sinks, and dies.
With Rayes, divinely from above,
Mounts (though with wings moist and bemir'd.)
The great Gods glorious Light to prove,
Slighting the World: yet self renouncing, tries,
That where God draws not, there she sinks, and dies.
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