We must have store. Goe, SOUL, out of thy Self, & seek for More. Great NATURE for the KEY of her huge Chest Of nimble ART, & traverse round All-soveraign Name To warn each severall kind And shape of sweetnes, Be they such Or answer Artfull Touch, That they convene & come away Shall we dare This, my Soul? we'l doe't and bring And every sweet-lipp't Thing Start into life, And leap with me I have Authority in Love's name to take you Of HIM who never sleeps, All Things that Are, Are Musicall; Answer my Call And come along; Help me to meditate mine Immortall Song. Bring All the store Of SWEETS you have; And murmur that you have no more. Come; & come strong, To the conspiracy of our Spatious song. Bring All the Powres of Praise Your Provinces of well-united WORLDS can raise e; Vessells of vocall Joyes, Or You, more noble Architects of Intellectuall Noise, And when you'are come, with All That you can bring or we can call; For ever here, & mix Your selves into the long And everlasting series of a deathlesse SONG; For Thou too hast thy Part Of This unbounded All-imbracing SONG. To All the dear-bought Nations This Redeeming Name, May it be no wrong Blest Heavns, to you, & your Superiour song, The Name of Your Dilights & our Desires, Of warbling SERAPHIM to the eares of Love, The Same bright Busynes (ye Third HEAVENS) with you. To keep it fair, And send it back to you again. Come, lovely NAME! Appeare from forth the Bright Regions of peacefull Light, Look from thine own Illustrious Home, Fair KING of NAMES, & come. Leave All thy native Glories in their Georgeous Nest, The hidden Sweets Which man's heart meets When Thou art Master of the Mind. Dearest Sweet, & come away. Lo how the thirsty Lands. Gasp for thy Golden Showres! with longstretch't Hands. Lo how the laboring EARTH That hopes to be All Heaven by THEE, 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, & spent Them too. O come away And kill the DEATH of This Delay. (LOVE's Eastern windowes) All wide ope To catch The Day-break of Thy DAWN. And know what SWEETES are suck't from out it. By which they thrive, Where All their Hoard of Hony lyes. Lo where it comes, upon The snowy Dove's Unfold thy fair Conceptions; And display Body of Blessings: spirit of Soules extracted! (Clowd of condensed sweets) & break upon us In balmy showrs; O fill our senses, And take from us All force of so Prophane a Fallacy To think ought sweet but that which smells of Thee. Fair, flowry Name; In none but Thee And Thy Nectareall Fragrancy, Hourly there meetes An universall SYNOD of All sweets; That no Perfume For ever shall presume To passe for Odoriferous, But such alone whose sacred Pedigree Can prove it Self some kin (sweet name) to Thee. A Thousand Blest ARABIAS dwell; Mountains of myrrh, & Beds of species, The soul that tasts thee takes from thence To awake them, And to take them Home, & lodge them in his HEART. O that it were as it was wont to be! When thy old Freinds of Fire, All full of Thee, Of DEATH & feircest Dangers, durst with Brave And sober pace march on to meet A GRAVE. On their Bold BRESTS about the world they bore thee Who tore the Fair Brests of thy Freinds, For Thee; And serv'd them in Thy glorious ends. More freely to transpire That impatient Fire The Heart that hides Thee hardly covers. Of Thy so oft repeated Rising. Each wound of Theirs was Thy new Morning; With blush of thine own Blood thy day adorning, It was the witt of love óreflowd the Bounds Of WRATH, & made thee way through All Those WOUNDS. |