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Wednesday Vespers.
Hymn XV.
[Let them go court what joys they please]
Let them go court what joys they please;
And gain what e're they court:
For me, I find but litle ease,
In all their gayest sport.
And gain what e're they court:
For me, I find but litle ease,
In all their gayest sport.
Be thou alone but with my hart;
My God, my only Blyss:
I shall not murmur at my part;
Nor envy their success.
My God, my only Blyss:
I shall not murmur at my part;
Nor envy their success.
They talk of pleasure, talk of gain;
None must their humor cross:
But well I know their pleasure's pain;
Their greatest profit, loss.
None must their humor cross:
But well I know their pleasure's pain;
Their greatest profit, loss.
Let them talk on; and have not we
Our gains, our pleasures too?
Pleasures that spring more sweet and free;
Gains that more fully flow.
Our gains, our pleasures too?
Pleasures that spring more sweet and free;
Gains that more fully flow.
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Nay, well endur'd, our very pains
To us a pleasure are:
And all our losses turn to gains;
If hopes may have their share.
To us a pleasure are:
And all our losses turn to gains;
If hopes may have their share.
And sure they may; such hopes as chear
The heav'n espoused brest:
Hopes, that so strangely charm us here,
What will they be possest!
The heav'n espoused brest:
Hopes, that so strangely charm us here,
What will they be possest!
All Glory to the sacred Three;
All honor power and praise:
As 'twas at first, still may it be,
Beyond the end of days.
All honor power and praise:
As 'twas at first, still may it be,
Beyond the end of days.
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