Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 148, by EDWARD TAYLOR



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First Line: My blessed lord, should I arrive unto
Last Line: And fill the aire with songs while thee I chase.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


My Blessed Lord, should I arrive unto
That rich propriety that makes mee thine,
If otherwise though thou thereto say'th noe.
I am in a bad use indeed and pine.
If I be thine thou then wilt set thine Eye
Upon my feet their beauty thou wilt spy.

In my returning unto thee, wilt say
How beautious are thy feet with Shooes, behold
Then thou indeed with praises give my way
My feet do take, my thigh joynts like rich gold
Adorned with Jewels gloriously do shine
The work of an Artificers hand most fine.

As I return to thee my errours fro
Thou wilt mee see and say of Mee behold
Thy feet all beautious with Shooes up grow
Thy walkst more Shines than paths all pavde with gold.
Thy beauteous Shooes all laid all ore so trim
And jew'ld thigh joynts grace the way Walkt in.

My walk to thee then in the Way of Faith
And of Repentance where each step is filld
With prints of Grace, of which our Lord Christ saith
How beautious are thy feet with Shooes that guild
Hath every step with wealthy grace inlaid
Thy Huckle joynts with jewells glorious trade.

Shall traitor Beckets tripping Slippers bee
Dawbt all ore with Gold Lace, and studded too
With precious stones? that every step that he
Didst take that sun like Sparks from thence out flew?
And shall Christs bride with brightest grace be graced
With blacksome shew have her bright path defacd?

Her Spirituall Shooes ore laid with Spirituall Lace
Studed with spirituall pearls and precious Stones,
Fitted to stick in glory's Crown where Grace
Shines in't as brightest Carbuncles ever shown
Which makes her path she walks in ware a shine
As she walks to Christ, glazd with rayes divine.

Her bright affections and Choice thought, her feet
Shod all with grace, Choice Shooes indeed the best
In Graces market had, good Cheape most meet
For th'princes Daughters ware and all her Vests
Are answerable thereunto. That bee
All beautious for delight in heavenly Glee.

These Shooes do make her walke to Christ appear
More glorious by far than is Romes Street
Stild Via Auri or triple Crowns costly Geare
Or Bejemd toes of Emperours Passing great.
How glorious with Shooes blest Madam sweet
Thy thigh joynts buncht with Pearls so beautious keep.

My Lord, may my Souls feet but wear such Shooes
And my thigh joynts be lashed, such jewells weare,
I then shall statly go and bravely Close
Even with thyselfe and keep the way most fair.
But every step will lined be with grace
And fill the Aire with Songs while thee I chase.





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