Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 10, by EDWARD TAYLOR


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First Line: Moses farewell. I with a mournfull teare
Last Line: Attend thy sweetest praise, in evry part.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


Moses farewell. I with a mournfull teare
Will wash thy Marble Vault, and leave thy Shine
To follow Josuah to Jordan where
He weares a Type, of Jesus Christ, divine.
Did by the Priests bearing the Arke off Cut
Her Stream, that Isr'el through it drieshod foot.

Doth twelve men call who in the Channell raise
Twelve Stones, and also other twelve up take
And Gilgal stud therewith, like pearles that blaze
In Rings of Gold, this passage to relate.
All speaking Types of Christ whose Ministry
Doth Jordans Streams cut off, that 'fore them fly.

And brings the Church into the Promisd Coast
And singles out his twelve Apostles who
Twelve flaming Carbuncles before his host
Out of the Channell take, and them bestow
As Monuments upon its banck most fair,
Twelve Articles th'Apostles Creed doth bare.

Now Farewell Wilderness, with all thy Fare.
The Water of the Rock, and Mannah too.
My Old-New Cloaths my Widernesses Ware,
The Cloud and Pillar bright, adjue adjue.
You onely in the Wilderness did flower
As flowring Types. With Angells now I bower.

Let Gilgal speake for mee, where Egypts Stain
Lapt in my Foreskin up clipt off off took.
I feed on Can'ans Wheat, Mannah's plump grain.
All Evangelicall our Bakers Cooke.
I drink the Drink of Life and weare Christs Web
And by the Sun of Righteousness am led.

Our Joshua doth draw his Troops out to
The Lunar coast, this Jericho the World
And rounds it while the Gospell Levites blow
Their Gospell Rams Horn Trumpets till down hurld
Its walls lie flat, and it his sacrifice
Doth burn in Zeale, whose Flame doth sindge the Skies.

As Joshuah doth fight Haile Stones smite down
The Can'anites: so Christ with Haile Stones shall
Destroy his Enemies, and breake their Crown.
The Sun and Moon shall stand to see them fall
The Heavens Chrystall Candlestick-like stand
Holding for him their Candles in their hand.

Yet such as Rahab like come o're to him
His Grace implanteth in his Golden Stock.
As Joshuah did each Tribe his lot out fling
So Christ doth his in Glory portions lot.
As Joshua fixt Gods Worship, and envest
Them with the Promise. Christ thus his hath blest.

That blazing Star in Joshua's but a Beam
Of thy bright Sun, my Lord, fix such in mee.
My Dish clout Soul Rence Wring, and make it clean.
Then die it in that blood that fell from thee.
And make the Waiting men within my heart
Attend thy sweetest praise, in evry part.





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