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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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Religion's harbour, like th'Etrurian bay ,
Secure from storms is land-lock'd ev'ry way.
Safe, midst the wreck of worlds, the vessel rides,
Nor minds the absent rage of winds and tides:
Whilst from his prow the pilot, looking down,
Surveys at once God's image and his own ;
Heav'n's favour smoothes th'expanse, and calmness sleeps
On the clear mirror of the silent deeps.
 

The port of Leriché, in Tuscany.

“One way to know God is perfectly to know one's self.” Hugo de anima.

“Why dost thou wonder, O man, at the height of the stars, or depth of the sea? Examine rather thine own soul, and wonder there.” Isidor.

Imitat. of Christ, L. II, C. 1–3.