Prison-pietie, or, Meditations divine and moral digested into poetical heads, on mixt and various subjects : whereunto is added a panegyrick to the right reverend, and most nobly descended, Henry Lord Bishop of London / by Samuel Speed ...

¶ The Soul's Yearnings.

MY Soul pants towards thee, My God, Fountain of Light and Life: Flesh strives with me, Conclude the strife, That so in blessed peace I may Unclay My Spirit; that done, swiftly take My flight to thy refreshing Spring, Where for thy sake, Who art my King, I may wash all my griefs away That day, And conquer Sin and Death. Thou great Triumpher o're the Grave, Whose life and breath Was spent to save A wretched World, make me be stil'd Thy Child; And grant that when I die And leave this World, that then my Soul Above the Skie Thou wilt enroul, That in thy arms for ever I, Even unto Eternity, May lie.