Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 1, by EDWARD TAYLOR


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First Line: Oh leaden heeld. Lord, give, forgive I pray
Last Line: My tunes upon thy excellency good.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


Oh Leaden heeld. Lord, give, forgive I pray.
Infire my Heart: it bedded is in Snow.
I Chide myselfe seeing myself decay.
In heate and Zeale to thee, I frozen grown.
File my dull Spirits: make them sharp and bright:
Them firbush for thyselfe, and thy delight.

My stains are such, and sinke so deep, that all
The Excellency in Created Shells
Too low, and little is to make it fall
Out of my leather Coate wherein it dwells.
This Excellence is but a Shade to that
Which is enough to make my Stains go back.

The glory of the world slickt up in types
In all Choise things chosen to typify,
His glory upon whom the worke doth light,
To thine's a Shaddow, or a butterfly,
How glorious then, my Lord, art thou to mee
Seeing to cleanse me, 's worke alone for thee.

The glory of all Types doth meet in thee.
Thy glory doth their glory quite excell:
More than the sun excells in its bright glee
A nat, an Earewig, Weevill, Snaile, or shell.
Wonders in Crowds start up; your eyes may strut
Viewing his Excellence, and 'is bleeding cut.

Oh! that I had but halfe an eye to view
This excellence of thine, undazled: so
Therewith to give my heart a touch anew
Until I quickened am, and made to glow.
All is too little for thee: but alas
Most of my little all hath other pass.

Then Pardon, Lord, my fault: and let thy beams
Of Holiness pierce through this Heart of mine.
Ope to thy Blood a passage though my veans.
Let thy pure blood my impure blood refine.
Then with new blood and spirits I will dub
My tunes upon thy Excellency good.






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