The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations/Coloss 3. 3.
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.