The Minor Poems of Joseph Beaumont ... Edited from the autograph manuscript with introduction and notes by Eloise Robinson |
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Ascension
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Ascension
May 27.
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A feast, & yet the very DayOur Bridegrome bear our Joys away?
Besides, the Comforter, who might
Supply us with Delight,
Is ten days off, & may not we
Now fast by sad authority?
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O no! this happy day must beThe holy Feast of Sympathie:
'Tis to his Coronation
Our head to day is gone;
Our reign commenceth heer, & we
Begin this morning Kings to be.
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Heavns Kingdome now is open sett:And yf we will not frustrate it,
Our Heads is our Ascension too;
And though wee'r left below,
In Him to Us is truely given
Livery & seisin of all heaven.
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Then take we state upon us now,Disdaining all that is below
Our royaltie: our sphears above
And there, there let us move.
For what have they to do, who dwell
In heavn with earth, much more with hell!
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