SONG. DEAR LOVE! continue nice and chaste, All pain and joy is in their way; Small favours will my prayers increase: Beasts cannot wit nor beauty see, Then, Love! prolong my suit; for thus 10 20 G My coming near may spy some ill, Say I have made a perfect choice; To make me rich (oh!) be not poor; 30 And at your will do less or more: But if to all you condescend, My Love, our sport, our godhead end. 34 A LECTURE UPON THE SHADOW. STAND still, and I will read to thee A lecture, Love, in Love's philosophy. Along with us, which we ourselves produc'd; And to brave clearness all things are reduc'd. So whilst our infant loves did grow, From us and our cares; but now 'tis not so. That love hath not attain'd the high'st degree, We shall new shadows make the other way. Others, these which come behind Will work upon ourselves, and blind our eyes. To me thou falsely thine, And I to thee mine, actions shall disguise. 10 20 But these grow longer all the day; But, oh! Love's day is short, if love decay. Love is a growing or full constant light, THE TOKEN. night. 26 SEND me some Tokens that my hope may live, Gij I beg nor ribband wrought with thy own hands, To knit our loves in the fantastic strain Of new-touch'd youth; nor ring, to shew the stands Of our affection, that as that's round and plain So should our loves meet in simplicity; No, nor the corals which thy wrist infold, To shew our thoughts should rest in the same hold: 18 DIVINE POEMS, &c. I. LA CORONA. DEIGN at my hands this crown of prayer and praise, Thou which of good hast, yea, art treasury, But what thy thorny crown gain'd that give me, A crown of glory, which doth flower always: The ends crown our works, but thou crown'st our ends. For at our ends begins our endless rest; The first last end now zealously possest, With a strong sober thirst my soul attends. II. ANNUNCIATION. "SALVATION to all that will is nigh;" That All, which always is all every where, Which cannot sin, and yet all sins must bear, Which cannot die, yet cannot choose but die, Lo, faithful Virgin! yields himself to lie 10 14 |