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First Line: My words and thoughts do both expressse this notion
Last Line: To gain at harvest an eternal treasure.
Variant Title(s): Coloss. 3. 3. Our Life Is Hide With Christ In God


MY words and thoughts do both expresse this notion,
That Life hath with the sun a double motion.
The first Is straight, and our diurnall friend;
The other Hid, and doth obliquely bend.
One life is wrapt In flesh, and tends to earth:
The other winds towards Him whose happie birth
Taught me to live here so, That still one eye
Should aim and shoot at that which Is on high;
Quitting with daily labour all My pleasure,
To gain at harvest an eternal Treasure.





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