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 36

¶ Midnight.

WHen to my Eyes (Whilst deep sleep others catches,) Thine hoast of spyes The starres shine in their watches, I doe survey Each busie Ray, And how they work, and wind, And wish each beame My soul doth streame, With the like ardour shin'd; What Emanations, Quick vibrations And bright stirs are there? What thin Ejections, Cold Affections, And slow motions here?
2.
Thy heav'ns (some say,) Are a firie-liquid light, Which mingling aye Streames, and flames thus to the sight. Come then, my god! Shine on this bloud, And water in one beame, And thou shalt see Kindled by thee Both liquors burne, and streame.

Page 37

O what bright quicknes, Active brightnes, And celestiall flowes Will follow after On that water, Which thy spirit blowes!
Math. Cap. 3. ver. XI.

I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but he that commeth after me, is mightier than I, whose shooes I am not worthy to beare, he shall baptize you with the holy Ghost, and with fire.

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