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Come lonely Name; Life of our hope!

Lo, we hold our hearts wide ope!

Vnlock Thy cabinet of Day,

Dearest Sweet, and come away.

Lo, how the thirsty Lands

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Gasp for Thy golden showres! with long-stretcht hands

Lo, how the laboring Earth

That hopes to be

All Heauen by Thee,

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Leapes at Thy birth!

The' attending World, to wait Thy rise,

First turn'd to eyes;

And then, not knowing what to doe,

Turn'd them to teares, and spent them too.
Come royall Name! and pay the expence
Of all this pretions patience;

O come away

And kill the death of this delay!

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O, see so many worlds of barren yeares
Melted and measur'd out in seas of teares :

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O, see the weary liddes of wakefull Hope (Love's eastern windowes) all wide ope With curtains drawn,

To catch the day-break of Thy dawn.

O, dawn at last, long-lookt for Day!

Take Thine own wings, and come away.

Lo, where aloft it comes! It comes, among

The conduct of adoring spirits, that throng

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Like diligent bees, and swarm about it.

O, they are wise,

And know what sweetes are suck't from out it:

It is the hiue,

By which they thriue,

Where all their hoard of hony lyes.

Lo, where it comes, vpon the snowy Dove's

Soft back; and brings a bosom big with loues :
Welcome to our dark world, Thou womb of Day!
Vnfold Thy fair conceptions, and display

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The birth of our bright ioyes, O Thou compacted 160 Body of blessings: Spirit of soules extracted!

O, dissipate Thy spicy powres,

(Cloud of condensed sweets) and break vpon vs

In balmy showrs!

O, fill our senses, and take from vs all force of so

prophane a fallacy,

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To think ought sweet but that which smells of Thee!

Fair, flowry Name, in none but Thee

And Thy nectareall fragrancy,

Hourly there meetes

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Can proue itself some kin (sweet Name!) to Thee.

( ome lonely Name; Life of ou hope!

Lo, we hold our hearts wide ope!
Vnlock Thy cabinet of Day,

Deare & Sweet, and come away.

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Lo, how the thirsty Lands

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for Thy golden showres! with long-stretcht hands

Lo, how the laboring Earth

That hopes to be

All Heauen by Thee,

Leapes at Thy birth!

The attending World, to wait Thy rise,
Find turn'd to eyes;

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And then, not knowing what to doe,

Furn'd them to teares, and spent them too.

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( ome royall Name! and pay the expence

Of all the pretions patience;

O come away

And all the death of this delay!

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To many worlds of barren yeares Melted and measun'd out in seas of teares:

co the weary hddes of wakefull Hope (Love' ca fern windowes) all wide ope With curtains drawn,

To catch the day break of Thy dawn.

O, dawn at Lad, long lookt for Day!

Fake Pline own wings, and come away.

To, where alott it comes It comes, among

The conduct of adoring spirits, that throng

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O, that it were as it was wont to be!

When Thy old freinds of fire, all full of Thee,
Fought against frowns with smiles; gaue glorious

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To persecutions; and against the face

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Of Death and feireest dangers, durst with braue
And sober pace, march on to meet a GRAVE.
On their bold brests, about the world they bore Thee,

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And to the teeth of Hell stood vp to teach Thee ;
In center of their inmost soules, they wore Thee,

Where rackes and torments striu'd, in vain, to

reach Thee.

Little, alas, thought they

Who tore the fair brests of Thy freinds,

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