The heat commanding in my heart doth sit.'
O that poore Love be not for ever spoyled,

5

Let my heat to your light be reconciled.

So shall these flames, whose worth

Now all obscurèd lyes :

-Drest in those beames-start forth

And dance before your eyes.

10

1 TURNBULL glaringly misprints "The heart commanding in my heart,' and in line 15, O love;' the latter after 1670 as usual, the former his own. G.

Let Nature die, (Phoenix-like) from death.
Revived Nature takes a second breath;
If on Time's right hand, sit faire Historie,
If from the seed of emptie Ruine, she
Can raise so faire an harvest; let her be
Ne're so farre distant, yet Chronologie
(Sharp-sighted as the eagle's eye, that can
Out-stare the broad-beam'd daye's meridian)
Will have a perspicill to find her out,

And, through the night of error and dark doubt,
Discerne the dawne of Truth's eternall ray,

As when the rosie Morne budds into Day.

5

ΤΟ

Now that Time's empire might be amply fill'd, 15

Babel's bold artists strive (below) to build

Ruine a temple; on whose fruitfull fall
History reares her pyramids, more tall

Than were th' Aegyptian (by the life these give,
Th' Egyptian pyramids themselves must live):

20

M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge (2d s. vol. iv. p. 286). One is thankful to have the claim confirmed by the non-presence of the poem in the SANCROFT MS., where only the above shorter one appears as by CRASHAW. Lines 5-8 of RAINBOW's poem it was simply impossible for our singer to have written. I add the other at close of CRASHAW's, as some may be curious to read it: but as the details of the grotesque 'Frontispiece' are celebrated by RAINBOW, not CRASHAW, I have departed from my intention of reproducing it in our illustrated quarto edition, the more readily in that I have much increased otherwise therein the reproductions announced. RAINBOW contributed to the University Collections along with CRASHAW, MORE, BEAUMONT, E. King, &c. &c. See our Essay on Life and Poetry. G.