Divine poems Containing The History of Ionah. Ester. Iob. Sampson. Sions Sonets. Elegies. Written and newly augmented, by Fra: Quarles |
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 | Divine poems |  |
Meditat. 16.
For mortals, to be borne, waxe old, and dye,
Lyes not in Will, but bare Necessity,
Common to beasts, which in the selfe degree,
Hold by the selfe-same Patient, even as we:
But to be wise is a diviner action
Of the discursive Soule, a pure abstraction
Of all her powers, united in the Will,
Ayming at Good, rejecting what is Ill:
It is an Influence of inspired breath,
Vnpurchased by birth, unlost by death,
Entail'd to no man, no, not free to all,
Yet gently answers to the eager cal
Of those, that with inflam'd affections seeke,
Respecting tender youth and age alike;
In depth of dayes, her spirit not alway lyes,
Yeeres make man Old, but heaven returnes him, Wise;
Youths Innocence, nor riper ages strength
Can challenge her as due; (Desired) length
Of dayes, produced to decrepit yeeres,
Fill'd with experience, and grizly hayres,
Can claime no right; th'Almighty ne're engages
His gifts to times, nor is he bound to Ages;
His quickning Spirit, to sucklings oft reveales,
What to their doting Grandsires he conceales,
The vertue of his breath can unbenumme
The frozen lips and strike the speaker dumme:
Who put that moving power into his tongue,
Whose lips did right the chast Susanna's wrong,
Vpon her wanton false Accusers death?
What secret fire inflam'd that fainting breath
That blasted Pharo? Or those ruder tongues,
That school'd the faithlesse Prophet for the wrongs
He did to sacred Iustice? matters not
How sleight the meane be in it selfe, or what
In our esteemes, so wisedome be the message;
Embassadours are worthied in th'Embassage:
God sowes his harvest to his best increase,
And glorifies himselfe how e're he please.
Lyes not in Will, but bare Necessity,
Common to beasts, which in the selfe degree,
Hold by the selfe-same Patient, even as we:
But to be wise is a diviner action
Of the discursive Soule, a pure abstraction
Of all her powers, united in the Will,
Ayming at Good, rejecting what is Ill:
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Vnpurchased by birth, unlost by death,
Entail'd to no man, no, not free to all,
Yet gently answers to the eager cal
Of those, that with inflam'd affections seeke,
Respecting tender youth and age alike;
In depth of dayes, her spirit not alway lyes,
Yeeres make man Old, but heaven returnes him, Wise;
Youths Innocence, nor riper ages strength
Can challenge her as due; (Desired) length
Of dayes, produced to decrepit yeeres,
Fill'd with experience, and grizly hayres,
Can claime no right; th'Almighty ne're engages
His gifts to times, nor is he bound to Ages;
His quickning Spirit, to sucklings oft reveales,
What to their doting Grandsires he conceales,
The vertue of his breath can unbenumme
The frozen lips and strike the speaker dumme:
Who put that moving power into his tongue,
Whose lips did right the chast Susanna's wrong,
Vpon her wanton false Accusers death?
What secret fire inflam'd that fainting breath
That blasted Pharo? Or those ruder tongues,
That school'd the faithlesse Prophet for the wrongs
He did to sacred Iustice? matters not
How sleight the meane be in it selfe, or what
In our esteemes, so wisedome be the message;
Embassadours are worthied in th'Embassage:
God sowes his harvest to his best increase,
And glorifies himselfe how e're he please.
Lord, if thou wilt, (for what is hard to thee?)
I may a Factour for thy glory bee,
Then grant that (like a faithfull servant) I
May render backe thy stocke with Vsury.
I may a Factour for thy glory bee,
Then grant that (like a faithfull servant) I
May render backe thy stocke with Vsury.
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