Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 129, by EDWARD TAYLOR


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First Line: My glorious lord. What shall thy spouse, descry
Last Line: Filld with this precious aire, thy praises pipe.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Puritans In Literature


My Glorious Lord. What shall thy Spouse, descry
That flaming, Glorious Beauty, Rich, Divine,
Before mine Eyes? And shall my heart out cry
Where's thy Beloved gone hence with his Shine?
That I may seeke him or shall she me sham,
When saying; to his garden which I am?

This Garden which he's gone to can it bee
Thyselfe thou fairest of all Women kinde
Can he go from, and yet abide with thee?
It must be so, if th'Garden's his designd.
It rather shews where his he entertains
Than th'Sense that saith, and that unsaith the same.

Garden delights when he therein descends
He makes his entertainments sweet for all,
These dainty Dishes disht up for Choice friends
Who enter there attendents to his Call.
Eyesight Delights and blushy Rosey Flowers
Clouds aromatick lodge in our Warm Towers.

Heart Ravishments: Delightful joyes unto
The highest inchantings of Nose Eares and Eyes
With spirituall tunes, Perfumes and Beauties show
Enriched all with all Celestiall joyes,
The sweet sweet Gales of the sweet spirits sweet Air
With which Clouds aromatick can't compare.

Lord! let thy Holy Spirit take my hand
And opening thy Graces garden doore
Lead mee into the Same that I well fan'd
May by thy Holy Spirit bee all ore
And make my Lungs thy golden Bagpipes right
Filld with this precious Aire, thy praises pipe.





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