Mundorum Explicatio or, The Explanation of an Hieroglyphical Figure: Wherein are couched the Mysteries of the External, Internal, and Eternal Worlds, shewing the true progress of a Soul from the Court of Jerusalem; from the Adamical fallen state to the Regenerate and Angelical. Being A Sacred Poem, written by S. P. [i.e. Samuel Pordage] |
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PROÆMIUM.
I sing no Hero's douty gests in warrs,Nor blazon forth some Warlike Champion's Scarrs:
I here no Prince's acts hyperbolize
With glozing prayses: Nor unto the Skies
Advance some common Justice in a King,
Nor the dread fury of the Wars I sing:
Nor with bewitching Layes advance above
The Sacred, the base toyes of wanton Love.
Nor praise the Courtly beauties of the times,
With Wine-inspired, and lascivious Rhithmes.
With Mars or Venus doth my Muse conjoyn;
She is URANIA and her Song's divine
I Sing (fill'd with Enthean Rage) the way
To Heav'n above, and everlasting Joy;
The vanity of cursed Earth beneath,
Where we poor helpless Mortals live and breath;
Th' Eternal horrors of the larger Sphear,
Where great Beelzebub and his Princes are:
The constant Joyes, and everlasting Bliss
Of the light World; or blessed Paradise:
The holy Myst'ries of the Worlds above
The lasting pleasures of the Sphears of Love:
These are the holy subjects of my Song;
Which doth the quavers of a sweeter Tongue
Then mine deserve: But yet accept my Will,
Which better would; had I had better Skill.
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