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 ...

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Title: 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 ...
Author: Speed, Samuel, 1631-1682.
Publication: London :: Printed by J. C. for S. S. ...,; 1677.
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¶ The Voyage.

THe World's a spacious Sea that's large and wide,
And man a little Barque that sails therein;
His thoughts do drive him like the Wind and Tide;
The shelf that threatens shipwrack is his Sin.
His Heart's the Pylot that this Ship doth guide;
Faith is the Freight with which he freely trades;
His Anchor, Hope: Thus doth he safely ride;
Heav'n is the Haven where the Barque unlades.
Needs must the Merchant in his Voyage thrive,
That safely doth at such a Port arrive.
Lord, be thou Pylot to this Ship of mine,
That both the Ship and Lading may be thine.