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 Vision.
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Flight is but the Preparative: The SightIs Deep and Infinit;
Ah me! tis all the Glory, Love, Light, Space,
Joy Beauty and Varietie
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Tis all that Ey can see.
Even Trades them selvs seen in Celestial Light,
And Cares and Sins and Woes are Bright.
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Order the Beauty even of Beauty is,It is the Rule of Bliss,
The very Life and Form and Caus of Pleasure;
Which if we do not understand,
Ten thousand Heaps of vain confused Treasure
Will but oppress the Land.
In Blessedness it self we that shall miss
Being Blind which is the Caus of Bliss.
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First then behold the World as thine, and wellNote that where thou dost Dwell.
See all the Beauty of the Spacious Case,
Lift up thy pleasd and ravisht Eys,
Admire the Glory of the Heavnly place,
And all its Blessings prize.
That Sight well seen thy Spirit shall prepare,
The first makes all the other Rare.
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Mens Woes shall be but foyls unto thy Bliss,Thou once Enjoying this:
Trades shall adorn and Beautify the Earth,
Their Ignorance shall make thee Bright,
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Their Faults shall keep thee right.
All shall be thine, becaus they all Conspire,
To feed and make they Glory higher.
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To see a Glorious Fountain and an EndTo see all Creatures tend
To thy Advancement, and so sweetly close
In thy Repose: To see them shine
In Use in Worth in Service, and even Foes
Among the rest made thine.
To see all these unite at once in Thee
Is to behold Felicitie.
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To see the Fountain is a Blessed Thing.It is to see the King
Of Glory face to face: But yet the End,
The Glorious Wondrous End is more;
And yet the fountain there we Comprehend,
The Spring we there adore.
For in the End the Fountain best is Shewn,
As by Effects the Caus is Known.
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From One, to One, in one to see All ThingsTo see the King of Kings
But once in two; to see his Endless Treasures
Made all mine own, my self the End
Of all his Labors! Tis the Life of Pleasures!
To see my self His friend!
Who all things finds conjoynd in Him alone,
Sees and Enjoys the Holy one.
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