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Obsequies to the Lord Harringtons brother. |
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To the Countesse of Bedford. |
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Faire soule, which wast, not onely as all soules bee, |
Then when thou wast infused, harmony, |
But did'st contiuue so; and now dost beare |
A part in Gods great Organ, this whole Sphere: |
If looking up to God, or downe to us, |
Thou finde that any way is pervious, |
'Twixt heav'n and earth, and that mens actions doe |
Come to your knowledge, and affections too, |
See, and with joy, me to that good degree |
Of goodnesse growne, that I can studie thee, |
And by these meditations refin'd, |
Can unapparell and enlarge my minde, |
And so can make by this soft extasie, |
This place a map of heaven, my selfe of thee. |
Thou seest me here at midnight, now all rest; |
Times dead-low water; when all mindes devest |
To morrowes businesse, when the labourers have |
Such rest in bed, that their last Church-yard graue, |
Subject to change, will scarce be'a type of this, |
Now when the Client, whose last hearing is |
To morrow, sleepes, when the condemned man, |
(Who when he opes his eyes, must shut them than |
Againe by death,) although sad watch he keepe, |
Doth practise dying by a little sleepe,
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