Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 61, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mights too mean, lend your angelick might Last Line: Shall sing thy praises: and thy glory sound. Subject(s): Puritans In Literature | ||||||||
My Mights too mean, lend your Angelick might Ye mighty Angells, brightly to define. A piece of burnisht brass, formd Serpent like To Countermand all poison Serpentine. No Remedie could cure the Serpents Bite But One: to wit, The brazen Serpent's Sight. Shall brass the bosoms poison in't Contain A Counter poison, better than what beds In Creatures bosoms? Nay, But its vertue came Through that brass Shapt from God that healing sheds. Its Vertue rode in th'golden Coach of th'eyes Into the Soule, and Serpents Sting defies. So that a Sight of the brazen Serpent hung Up in the Banner Standard of the Camp Was made a Charet wherein rode and run A Healing vertue to the Serpents Cramp. But that's not all. Christ in this Snake shapt brass Raist on the Standard, Crucified was. As in this Serpent lay the onely Cure Unto the fiery Serpents burning bite, Not by its Physick Vertue, (that is sure) But by a Beam Divine of Grace's might Whose Vertue onely is the plaster 'plide Unto the Wound, by Faith in Christs blood di'de. A Sight of th'Artificiall Serpent heales The venom wound the naturall Serpent made. A Spirituall Sight of Christ, from Christ down steals. A Cure against the Hellish Serpents trade. Not that the Springhead of the Cure was found In Christs humanity with sharp thorns Crownd. This Brazen Serpent is a Doctors Shop. On ev'ry Shelfe's a Sovereign remedy. The Serpents Flesh the Sovereign Salve is got Against the Serpents bite, gaind by the eye. The Eyebeames agents are that forth do bring The Sovereign Counter poison, and let't in. I by the fiery Serpent bitt be here. Be thou my brazen Serpent me to Cure. My Sight, Lord, make thy golden Charet cleare To bring thy remedy unto my Sore. If this thou dost I shall be heald: My wound Shall sing thy praises: and thy glory sound. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: THE JOY OF CHURCH FELLOWSHIP RIGHTLY ATTENDED by EDWARD TAYLOR GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: THE PREFACE by EDWARD TAYLOR PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 1 by EDWARD TAYLOR PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 32 by EDWARD TAYLOR PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 38 by EDWARD TAYLOR PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 8 by EDWARD TAYLOR PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 3 by EDWARD TAYLOR PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 56 by EDWARD TAYLOR GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: CHRIST'S REPLY by EDWARD TAYLOR GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: THE JOY OF CHURCH FELLOWSHIP RIGHTLY ATTENDED by EDWARD TAYLOR |
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