LORD, with what bountie and rare clemencie Hast thou redeem'd us from the grave! If thou hadst let us runne, Gladly had man ador'd the sunne, And thought his god most brave; Where now we shall be better gods than he. Thou hast but two rare cabinets full of treasure, The Trinitie and Incarnation: Thou hast unlockt them both, And made them jewels to betroth The work of thy creation Unto thyself in everlasting pleasure. The statelier cabinet is the Trinitie, Whose sparkling light access denies: Therefore thou dost not show This fully to us, till death blow The dust into our eyes; For by that powder thou wilt make us see. But all thy sweets are packt up in the other; Thy mercies thither flock and flow; That, as the first affrights, This may allure us with delights; Because this box we know; For we have all of us just such another. But man is close, reserv'd, and dark to thee: When thou demandest but a heart, He cavils instantly. In his poore cabinet of bone Sinnes have their box apart, Defrauding thee, who gavest two for one. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BLACK RIDERS: 38 by STEPHEN CRANE TO ELIZABETH, COUNTESS OF RUTLAND by BEN JONSON PSALM 80 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH; LAST POEM, ROME, MAY, 1861 by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING THE GREEK BOY by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT TO A LADY IN ILLNESS by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES A TRUE TALE TO MRS. J - S. WRITTEN AT HER REQUEST by MARY CHANDLER LOVE, HOPE, AND PATIENCE IN EDUCATION by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |