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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TRINITIE SUNDAY (FOR A BASE AND TWO TREBLES), by JOSEPH BEAUMONT First Line: Fond syllogismes, in vaine / you arme your propositions three Last Line: (chorus) thrice holie holie holie trinitie. Subject(s): Christianity; Trinity, The | |||
FOND Syllogismes, in vaine You arme your Propositions Three Against Religious Trinitie. Alas, what need you straine To run so mad with Reason, & excell In wrangling all your Masters into Hell. Must Faith & Heavn goe learne Reason of Arius? Must ye Son Be God no longer then Art can The Mysterie discerne, And by pure Demonstration teach ye Eye How th' Angles in the Eternall TRIGON lie? Fooles, we would not maintaine Our ONE in THREE, & THREE in ONE, If your best Demonstration Could wisely it explaine. No: Tis a Mysterie, & shall ever quell Both Arius, & all other Gates of Hell. Come Faithfull Hearts & sing: All Saints & Angells will conspire To fix ye Consort of your Quire: They know your Mystik King: And in their everlasting Anthems crie (Chorus) Thrice HOLIE HOLIE HOLIE TRINITIE. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AN IRISH FANTASY by JOHN FRANKLIN BLUNT I HEAR A VOICE by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS KNOWEST THOU JEHOVAH by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS PRAYER by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS THE HOLY TRINITY by REGINALD HEBER TRINITY CHIMES: ON A SATURDAY AFTERNOON by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER TO MICHAL: ON BRINGING HER BREAKFAST IN BED by CHARLES WILLIAMS THREE FACES by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Γενεθλιακον by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Γενεθλιακον by JOSEPH BEAUMONT A CONCLUSORIE HUMNE TO THE SAME WEEK; & FOR MY FRIEND by JOSEPH BEAUMONT |
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