Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO GOD THE FATHER, by HENRY CONSTABLE


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First Line: Great god: within whose simple essence, we
Last Line: That it the temple of the spirit may prove.
Subject(s): God


Great God: within whose simple essence, we
Nothing but that which is Thy Self can find;
When on Thyself Thou didst reflect Thy mind
Thy thought was God, which took the form of Thee;
And when this God, thus born, Thou lov'st, and He
Loved Thee again, with passion of like kind,
As lovers' sighs which meet become one mind,
Both breathed one Spirit of equal deity.
Eternal Father, whence these two do come
And wil'st the title of my father have,
An heavenly knowledge in my mind engrave,
That it Thy Son's true Image may become:
Incense my heart with sighs of holy Love,
That it the temple of the Spirit may prove.





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