That I shall mind, what you impart; Look, you may put it very near My heart. Or if hereafter any of My friends Will use Me in this kind the door POOR THE JEWS OOR nation, whose sweet sap, and juice Our scions have purloined, and left you dry: Whose streams we got by the Apostles' sluice And use in baptism, while ye pine and die: Who by not keeping once, became a debtor; And now by keeping lose the letter: O that my prayers! mine, alas! O that some Angel might a trumpet sound: That your sweet sap might come again! I THE COLLAR STRUCK the board, and cried, no more; What? shall I ever sigh and pine? Shall I be still in suit? Have I no harvest but a thorn To let me blood, and not restore What I have lost with cordial fruit? Sure there was wine, Before my sighs did dry it: there was corn, Is the year only lost to me? Have I no bays to crown it? No flowers, no garlands gay? all blasted? Not so, my heart: but there is fruit, Recover all thy sigh-blown age On double pleasures: leave thy cold dispute Thy rope of sands, Which petty thoughts have made, and made to thee Good cable, to enforce and draw, And be thy law, While thou didst wink and wouldst not see. I will abroad. Call in thy death's-head there: tie up thy fears. To suit and serve his need, Deserves his load. But as I raved and grew more fierce and wild Methought I heard one calling, "Child :" And I replied, "My Lord!” THE GLIMPSE WHITHER away delight? Thou eamest but now; wilt thou so soon depart, For many weeks of lingering pain and smart Methinks delight should have More skill in music, and keep better time. They quickly go and come with lesser crime: Thy short abode and stay A neighbour spring to cool his inward heat; In hope of thee my heart Picked here and there a crumb, and would not die; When as my fears foretold this, did reply, Yet if the heart that wept Must let thee go, return when it doth knock. For future times, the droppings of the stock L If I have more to spin, The wheel shall go, so that thy stay be short. Disturb the work. O make me not their sport, ASSURANCE SPITEFUL bitter thought! Bitterly spiteful thought! Couldst thou invent So high a torture? Is such poison bought? Doubtless, but in the way of punishment, When wit contrives to meet with thee, Thou said'st but even now, And what to this? What more Could poison, if it had a tongue, express? What is thy aim? Wouldst thou unlock the door To cold despairs, and gnawing pensiveness? Wouldst thou raise devils? I see, I know, I writ thy purpose long ago. But I will to my Father, Who heard thee say it. O most gracious Lord, But Thou art my desert; And in this league, which now my foes invade, Wherefore if Thou canst fail, Then can Thy truth and I: but while rocks stand, Now, foolish thought, go on, Spin out thy thread, and make thereof a coat To hide thy shame: for thou hast cast a bone, Which bounds on thee, and will not down thy throat. What for itself love once began, Now love and truth will end in man. THE CALL COME, my Way, my Truth, my Life: Such a Truth, as ends all strife: Such a Life, as killeth death. Come, my Light, my Feast, my Strength: Such a Light, as shows a feast: Such a Feast, as mends in length: Such a Strength, as makes his guest. |