When your hands untie these strings,

Think, yo' have an angell by the wings;

One that gladly would be nigh,

To waite upon each morning sigh:

To flatter in the balmy aire

Of you well perfumed praier,

These white plames of his heel lend you,
Which every day to Heaven will send you :
To take acprintance of each spheare,
And all your smooth-fae'd kindred there.
And though HERBERT'S name doe owe
These devotions: fairest, know
While I thus lay them on the shrine
Of you white hand, they are mine.

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A HYMN TO THE NAME AND HONOR OF

THE ADMIRABLE SAINTE TERESA :

Fovndresse of the Reformation of the discalced Carmelites, both men and women; a Woman for angelicall heigth of speculation, for masculine courage of performance more then a woman who yet a child, out-ran maturity, and durst plott a Martyrdome;

Misericordias Domini in Eternvm cantabo.

Le Vray portraict de Ste Terese, Fondatrice des Religieuses et Religieux reformez de l'ordre de N. Dame du mont Carmel: Decedee le 4e Octo. 1582. Canonisee le 12o Mars. 1622.1

THE HYMNE.

LOUE, thou art absolute sole lord

Of life and death. To proue the word

Wee'l now appeal to none of all

Those thy old souldiers, great and tall,

Ripe men of martyrdom, that could reach down
With strong armes, their triumphant crown;

Such as could with lusty breath

Speak lowd into the face of death,

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1 Appeared originally in 'Steps' of 1646 (pp. 79-84): reprinted in editions of 1648 (pp. 89-94), 1652 (pp. 93-100), and 1670 (pp. 61-67). Our text is that of 1652, as before, and its engraving of the Saint's portrait, and French lines here, are reproduced in our illustrated quarto edition. See Notes and Illustrations at close of the poem, and our Essay on Teresa and Crashaw. G.