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First Line: My double dear lord, and doubl't ore and ore
Last Line: And I will sing thy praise in songs most rife.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


My double Dear Lord, and doubl't ore and ore
Ten thousand times it would indeed still rise
A bubble too small to knock at thy blesst doore
Of Loveliness, ten thousand times to thy sise.
It would be a gift ten thousand times too low
Though 't is the best I have on thee to bestow.

My Love alas is but a shrimpy thing
A sorry Crickling a blasted bud
A little drachm, too light a gift to bring.
Its but a grain weight and scarce ever good,
And shall I then presume thee to obtain
If I should rob thee of so small a grain.

Thou art as Apple tree 'mong sons of man
As was the Apple tree amonge the trees
That many are, (the Worlds geese are white swans
In its account.) but thou excellest all these
Ten thousand times bearing on every limb
All golden apples; ripest grace that springs.

Not like the tree that once in Eden grew
Amongst whose fruits the serpent old soon lops
And in his very teeth the poison threw
Into our Mother Eves her sorry Chops.
Nor like the Serpents Egge the Squerill held
Secur'd itselfe from th'venom that on it fell.

Lord shake their bower and let these apples fall
Into my Wicker basket and it fill.
Then I shall have rich spirituall food for all
Occasions as they essences do still
And I shall feed on their rich grace my fare
As they drop from thy Apple tree most rare.

And as thou serv'st up in thy Charger bright
A messe of these rich apples, sweet imbrace
I tasting them do in their reech delight
And over them will surely sing thee grace.

Thou tree of Life that ever more dost stand
Within the Paradise of God and hast
The Promise to him gi'n whose happy hand
Doth overcome, shall of it eate and tast.
Lord feed mee with this promisd food of Life
And I will sing thy praise in songs most rife.





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