Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 118, by EDWARD TAYLOR


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First Line: Oh! Hide bound heart. Harder than mountain rocks
Last Line: My harp shall play: thy golden head excell.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


Oh! Hide bound Heart. Harder than mountain Rocks
Can not one beam of this bright golden Head
Have enterance, thats trim'd with black Curld Locks
In all its vigrous green up flowerished
My Child affections thus to touch and thaw.
And to thy golden head their Spirits draw?

The stateliest Head that ever body Bore
Not gilt but finest gold, of Heavens Gold.
The golden Head that Neb' chadnezzer wore
Was but a durt ball to't of tainted mould.
It's true indeed, I call't not Deity,
But a Bright Emblem of bright Majesty.

This Golden head holds Sovereignity
And Sovereignity being relative
Constrains a golden body Worthily
Both politick and properly native.
The Best of Humane Bodies Golden should
And politicke, ere weare this head of gold.

These Bodies fitted to this Golden Head
Must needs be golden. Oh the best of all!
Because it is their Sovereign: and doth bed
And board the best things in its golden Hall.
Faith, Hope and Charity and all graces still
Out from this Head, and every member fill.

The Brains that in this golden brain Pan dwell
Must needs be golden, Golden Wisdom breed.
Its Eyes weare Golden Apples. Th'Senses Cell
Is all fine Gold, all Golden trade indeed.
If Wisdom's Palace is the finest Gold,
Then Golden laws and statutes hence behold.

Hence Golden influences out are sent
To Every member of this Golden Head
The Body Naturall, Whose acts intent
Upon their Golden Rule are Golden bread
And hence a golden life my Lord did lead,
From top to toe, most gloriously displayd.

Also the Body Politick, the Realm
Having its members every one possess
These golden influences from their Helm
Do make all golden motions ever fresh.
Hence th'golden Laws with Golden influences
A golden race produce and in all senses.

Thy Golden Head a golden Kingdom hath
To which it Golden Statutes out doth give
And golden influences it display'th,
That make the Subjects golden lives to live,
And by these golden Laws thy walke to hold
Thy glorious City to, whose Streets pure gold.

Oh! glorious Lord, make mee make thy Gold Head
To bee my Sovereign, and make thou mee
A member of thy Golden body led
By its blesst Golden Lines that lead to thee
That as my Life thy lines do parallell,
My Harp shall play: thy Golden head Excell.





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