Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 125, by EDWARD TAYLOR


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First Line: Lead me, my lord upon mount lebanon
Last Line: All smelling of thy lebanons rich wine.
Subject(s): Cedar Trees; Lebanon; Puritans In Literature


Lead me, my Lord upon mount Lebanon,
And shew me there an Aspect bright of thee.
Open the Valving Doors, when there upon
I mean the Casements of thy Faith in mee.
And give my Souls Cleare Eye of thee a Sight
As thou shinst its bright looking Glasses bright.

If I may read thee in its name thou art
The Hill, it metaphors, of Frankincense,
Hence all atonement for our Sins thy heart
Hath made with God: thou pardon dost dispense.
So thou dost whiten us, who were all O're
All fould with filth and Sin, all rowld in goare.

What Costly Stones, red Marble, Porphory
And Cedars Choice in Lebanon abound
What Almugs and what Vines deliciously
That smell, are in this Lebanon then found?
All Grace and gracious Saints are hereupon
Compared to the Smell of Lebanon.

When thou hast cleard my Faiths round appled Eye
My Souls peirt Eye and Lebanon display
Her Glory and her Excellency high
In sweet perfumes and gaudie bright array
And all grow tall, strong, fragrant up from thee
And of these Cedars tall I sprung one bee.

Then I shall see these precious square wrought Stones
Are to thy Zion brought, foundations laid,
And all these Cedars Choice, of Lebanon
Are built thereon and Spirituall Temples made.
And still thy Spirits Breathings makes them grow
And forth they flowrish, and their Smell doth flow.

Lord let me stand founded on thee by grace
And grow a Cedar tall and Upright here.
And sweeten me with this sweet aire apace
Make me a grape of Leb'nons Vine up peare.
Let me then see Thy Glory Lebanon
And yield the Smell of those sweet vines thereon.

My Circumcised Eare, and Souls piert Eye,
Having their Spirituall Casements opening
And thou displaying thy bright majesty
Thy Shine and Smell of Lebanon Crowd in
At these gold-Casements of mine Ears and Eyes.
They'l fill my Soul with Joyous Extasies.

Lord, make thine Aspect then as Lebanon.
Allow me such brave Sights and Sents so sweet
Oh! Ravishing Sweet pour'd out my Soule upon.
Fill all its empty Corners and there keep
That so my breath may sing thy praise divine
All smelling of thy Lebanons rich wine.





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