Yet is their silence unto Thee, The full sound of Thy victorie; Their silence speaks aloud, and is While they speak nothing, they speak all Their share, in Thy memoriall. While they speake nothing, they proclame 20 25 OUR BLESSED] LORD IN HIS CIRCUMCISION TO HIS FATHER,1 1. To Thee these first-fruits of My growing death (For what else is My life?), lo! I bequeath: 2. Tast this, and as Thou lik'st this lesser flood Expect a sea: My heart shall make it good. 1 Appeared originally in the Steps of 1646 (p. 21); was reprinted in 1618 (p. 29) and 1670 (p. 22). Our text is that of 1648, but the others are the same except in the usual changes of ortho graphy. The SANCROFT MS, in line 7 reads Then shall. He drink ;' line 9, My paines are in their nonage: my young feares; line 10 I have adopted, instead of Are yet both in their hopes, not come to yeares, which isn't English; line 12, are tender: line 14, a towardnesse, I have arranged these poems in numbered couplets as m the SANCROFT MS, I insertd. dropped by misprint in 1618, but found in 1646 (line 13), 6. 8. These purple buis of Norming death may bee, 15 Erst the fall stature of a fatall tree. 9. And till My riper woes to age are come, This knife may be the speare's præludium. H VOL. I. ON THE WOUNDS OF OUR CRUCIFIED LORDA O, THESE Wakefull wounds of Thine! Are they mouthes? or are they eyes? Each bleeding part some one supplies. Many a kisse, and many a teare; This foot hath got a mouth and lips I 5 ΤΟ To pay the sweet summe of thy kisses; To o pay thy teares, an eye that weeps, 15 Instead of teares, such gems as this is. Appeared originally in Steps of 1646 (pp. 21, 22); was reprinted i editions of 1648 (pp. 29, 30) and 1670 (pp. 22. 23). Our text is that of 1618; but all agree save in usual orthographie slight changes. In 1616 stanza ii, Ime 2 spells 'too as 'two,' The SANCROLL Ms, varies only, as usual, in the orthography, G. ON THE WOUNDS OF OUR CRUCIFIED LORD. O, THESE wakefull wounds of Thine! Each bleeding part some one supplies. Many a kisse, and many a teare; What soe're thy charges were. This foot hath got a mouth and lips 5 ΤΟ To pay the sweet summe of thy kisses; To pay thy teares, an eye that weeps, 15 Instead of teares, such gems as this is. 1 Appeared originally in Steps of 1646 (pp. 21, 22); was reprinted in editions of 1648 (pp. 29, 30) and 1670 (pp. 22, 23). Our text is that of 1648; but all agree save in usual orthographic slight changes. In 1646 stanza ii, line 2 spells "too' as "two." CROFT MS, varies only, as usual, in the orthography, G. The SAN |