The Amaranth Or, religious poems; consisting of fables, visions, emblems, etc. Adorned with copper-plates from the best masters [by Walter Harte] |
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The Amaranth | ||
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Hard is the task 'gainst nature's strength to strive:Perfection is the lot of none alive;
Or grant frail man could tread th'unerring road,
How could we suffer for the sake of God?
Affliction's ordeal, sharp, but brightly shines;
Sep'rates the gold , and ev'ry vice calcines.
In adverse fortune, when the storm runs high,
And sickness graves death's image on the eye,
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Ask God to send thee patience or relief.
The infant Moses 'scap'd his watry grave
Heav'n half-o'erwhelms the man it means to save!
The Amaranth | ||