Silex scintillans, or, Sacred poems and priuate eiaculations by Henry Vaughan ...

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Silex scintillans, or, Sacred poems and priuate eiaculations by Henry Vaughan ...
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Vaughan, Henry, 1622-1695.
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London :: Printed by T.W. for H. Blunden ...,
1650.
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Page 27

The Pursuite.

LOrd! what a busie, restles thing Hast thou made man? Each day, and houre he is on wing, Rests not a span; Then having lost the Sunne, and light By clouds surpriz'd He keepes a Commerce in the night With aire disguis'd; Hadst thou given to this active dust A state untir'd, The lost Sonne had not left the huske Nor home desir'd; That was thy secret, and it is Thy mercy too, For when all failes to bring to blisse, Then, this must doe. Ah! Lord! and what a Purchase will that be To take us sick, that sound would not take thee?
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