Poems On several Choice and Various Subjects Occasionally Composed By An Eminent Author. Collected and Published by Sergeant-Major P. F. [i.e. James Howell] |
Upon the Holy Sacrament.
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Poems On several Choice and Various Subjects | ||
Upon the Holy Sacrament.
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Hail holy Sacrament,The worlds great VVonderment,
Mysterious Banquet, much more rare
Then Manna, or the Angels fare;
Each crum, though sinners on thee feed,
Doth Cleopatra's Perl exceed.
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After these Cates so precious, so divine!
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She need not bring her StoolAs some unbidden Fool;
The Master of this Heavenly Feast
Invites and wooes her for his Guest:
Though Deaf and Lame, Forlorn and Blind,
Yet welcome here she's sure to find,
So that she bring a Vestment for the day,
And her old tatter'd Rags throw quite away.
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This is Bethsaida's PoolThat can both clense and cool
Poor leprous and diseased souls,
An Angel here keeps and controuls,
Descending gently from the Heavens above
To stir the waters; May He also move
My mind, and rockie heart so strike and rend,
That tears may thence gush out with them to blend.
Poems On several Choice and Various Subjects | ||