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The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations/Love (II)

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II.

IMmortall Heat, O let thy greater flameAttract the lesser to it: let those fires,Which shall consume the world, first make it tame;And kindle in our hearts such true desires,
As may consume our lusts, and make thee way.Then shall our hearts pant thee; then shall our brainAll her invention on thine Altar lay,And there in hymnes send back thy fire again:
Our eyes shall see thee, which before saw dust;Dust blown by wit, till that they both were blinde:Thou shalt recover all thy goods in kinde,Who wert disseized by usurping lust:
All knees shall bow to thee; all wits shall rise,And praise him who did make and mend our eies.