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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How easily doth Nature teach the Soul!
How irresistible is her Infusion!
There's Nothing found that can her Force controll
But Sin. How weak and feeble's all Delusion!
How irresistible is her Infusion!
There's Nothing found that can her Force controll
But Sin. How weak and feeble's all Delusion!
Things false are forc'd and most elaborate;
Things pure and tru are obvious unto Sense:
The first Impressions in our earthly State
Are made by Things of highest Excellence.
Things pure and tru are obvious unto Sense:
The first Impressions in our earthly State
Are made by Things of highest Excellence.
How easy is it to believ the Sky
Is wide, and great, and fair! How soon may we
Be made to know the Sun is bright, and high,
And very glorious, when its Beams we see!
Is wide, and great, and fair! How soon may we
Be made to know the Sun is bright, and high,
And very glorious, when its Beams we see!
That all the Earth is one continu'd Globe;
And that all Men therin are Living Treasures;
That Fields and Meadows like a glorious Robe
Adorn it with variety of Pleasures.
And that all Men therin are Living Treasures;
That Fields and Meadows like a glorious Robe
Adorn it with variety of Pleasures.
That all we see is Ours, and evry One
Possessor of the whole: That evry Man
Is like a God incarnat in his Throne,
Ev'n as the first for whom the World began.
Possessor of the whole: That evry Man
Is like a God incarnat in his Throne,
Ev'n as the first for whom the World began.
Whom All are taught to honor, serv, and lov,
Becaus he is Belov'd of God most High,
And therfore ev'ry Man is plac'd abov
His Brother, for the Proof of Charity.
Becaus he is Belov'd of God most High,
And therfore ev'ry Man is plac'd abov
His Brother, for the Proof of Charity.
That all may happy be, each one most blest
Both in himself and others; All supream,
While All by Each, and Each by All possest;
Are inter-mutual Joys, beyond a Dream.
Both in himself and others; All supream,
While All by Each, and Each by All possest;
Are inter-mutual Joys, beyond a Dream.
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This shews a wise Contrivance, and discovers
A Great Creätor sitting on the Throne,
Who so disposeth things for all His Lovers,
That evry One might reign, like God, Alone.
A Great Creätor sitting on the Throne,
Who so disposeth things for all His Lovers,
That evry One might reign, like God, Alone.
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