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Poems Divine, and Humane

By Thomas Beedome

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Conscience.
  
  
  
  
  
  



Conscience.

See the blacke clouds of my aspiring sinne,
Whose noxious exhalations beginne
To muffle up my hopes, and swelling high,
Terminate no where till they touch the skye:
Shrill clammarous Conscience, dost thou think my God
Like Baall, his chinne upon his brest doth nod,
And wakens not unlesse thy cry (which is
A thousand Larums) added be to his?
Busie Recorder, know'st thou not I finde,
Through the wholl series of a sinfull minde,
That 'tis enough to sinne? the burthen's more
When after-checks tell what I did before:
And gives ill rellish to my sicke condition.
To taste such Viands by a repetition.
Yet happy be (my soule) for stupid scence,
Might so relaxe th' intentive Conscience,
That from its prone endeavour it might be
No lesse then guilty by indulgency.
Oh! prosecute me still, quicke Conscience, doe
And may I my repentance doe so too;
That when my Judge doth find thy judgement past
Appeas'd he say, lost sheepe come home at last.
T. B.