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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¶ On a Glorious Soul.

WHenas the Moon her constant course hath run,
And draws to a Conjunction with the Sun,
It to the Heavens shines more bright and pure,
And towards Earth seemeth the more obscure.
So, as the Soul draws neer, as like a Spouse,
Shines fair to Christ, is to the World a Blouse.
He that is pretious unto God, that man
Is by the World esteem'd a Puritan:
And he whose Soul in Glory doth inherit,
Appears but odious to an earthly Spirit.
For he that looks with a Terrestrial sight,
Is Lustre-dazled with Coelestial light.
Shine fair to God if thou'lt to Heaven go;
Beauty on earth is a beclouded show.