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Our life is hid with Christ in God.
MY words & thoughts do both expresse this notiō
That LIFE hath with the sun a double motion.
The first IS straight, and our diurnall friend;
The other HID, and doth obliquely bend.
One life is wrapt IN flesh, and tends to earth;
The other winds towards HIM, whose happie birth
Taught me to live here so, THAT still one eye
Should aim and shoot at that which IS on high:
Quitting with daily labour all MY pleasure,
To gain at harvest an eternall TREAsure.
That LIFE hath with the sun a double motion.
The first IS straight, and our diurnall friend;
The other HID, and doth obliquely bend.
One life is wrapt IN flesh, and tends to earth;
The other winds towards HIM, whose happie birth
Taught me to live here so, THAT still one eye
Should aim and shoot at that which IS on high:
Quitting with daily labour all MY pleasure,
To gain at harvest an eternall TREAsure.
¶ Vanitie.
THe fleet Astronomer can bore
And thred the spheres with his quick-piercing minde:
He views their stations, walks from doore to doore,
Surveys, as if he had design'd
To make a purchase there: he sees their dances,
And knoweth long before
Both their full-ey'd aspects, and secret glances.
And thred the spheres with his quick-piercing minde:
He views their stations, walks from doore to doore,
Surveys, as if he had design'd
To make a purchase there: he sees their dances,
And knoweth long before
Both their full-ey'd aspects, and secret glances.
The nimble Diver with his side
Cuts through the working waves, that he may fetch
His deerly-earned pearl, which God did hide
On purpose from the ventrous wretch;
That he might save his life, and also hers,
Who with excessive pride
Her own destruction and his danger wears.
Cuts through the working waves, that he may fetch
His deerly-earned pearl, which God did hide
On purpose from the ventrous wretch;
That he might save his life, and also hers,
Who with excessive pride
Her own destruction and his danger wears.
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