Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 59, by EDWARD TAYLOR


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First Line: Wilt thou enoculate within mine eye
Last Line: I shall thy praise under this shadow sing.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


Wilt thou enoculate within mine Eye
Thy Image bright, My Lord, that bright doth shine
Forth in the Cloudy-Firy Pillar high
Thy Tabernacles Looking-Glass Divine?
What glorious Rooms are then mine Eyeholes made.
Thine Image on my windows Glass portrai'd?

Oh! Pillar strange, made of a Cloude, and Fire.
Whose Stoole is Israels Camp, it sits upon.
Whose Skirts doe Canopy that Camp: Whose Spire
Doth kiss the Heavens, leading Israel on.
Sure't is Christ's Charret drawn by Angells high.
The Humane jacket, typ'te, of's Deity.

A Sun by night, to Dayify the dark.
A Shade by Day, Sunbeames to mollify.
The Churches Pilot out her way to mark:
Her Quarter Master quarters to descry.
Its Christ's Watch tower over his Churches Host,
With Angells kept. Tent of the Holy Ghost.

Christs Looking Glass that on his Camp gives Shine.
Whose backside's pitchy darkness to his foes.
A Wall of Fire about his Israel twines
To burn up all that offer to oppose:
The Mediatory Province in a Map.
The Feather in the Tabernacle's Cap.

Christ in this Pillar, Godhead-Man'd doth rise
The Churches King, to guid, support, Defend.
Her Priest to Cleanse her: in the Cloud to baptize.
And Reconcile with Incense that ascends.
Her Prophet too that Lights her in her way
By Night With Lanthorn Fire. With Cloud by day.

Then lead me, Lord, through all this Wilderness
By this Choice shining Pillar Cloud and Fire.
By Day, and Night I shall not then digress.
If thou wilt lead, I shall not lag nor tire
But as to Cana'n I am journeying
I shall thy praise under this Shadow sing.





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