But since thy breath gave me both life and shape, The sigh then onely is A gale to bring me sconer to my blisse. Thy life on earth was grief, and thou art still A point of honour, now to grieve in me, They who lament one crosse, 49. THE STARRE. BRIGHT spark, shot from a brighter place, So well as there? Yet, if thou wilt from thence depart, First with thy fire-work burn to dust Folly, and worse than folly, lust: Then with thy light refine, And make it shine. So disengag'd from sinne and sicknesse, Then with our trinitie of light, Motion, and heat, let's take our flight Before didst bow. Get me a standing there, and place Sinne and my heart: That so among the rest I may Glitter, and curle, and winde as they : That winding is their fashion Of adoration. Sure thou wilt joy, by gaining me To flie home like a laden bee Unto that hive of beams And garland-streams. 50. SUNDAY. O DAY most calm, most bright, The week were dark, but for thy light: The other dayes and thou Make up one man; whose face thou art, Man had straight forward gone To endlesse death; but thou dost pull The which he doth not fill. Sundaies the pillars are, On which heav'n's palace arched lies: They are the fruitfull beds and borders Which parts their ranks and orders. The Sundaies of man's life, Thredded together on Time's string, On Sunday heaven's gate stands ope; More plentifull then hope. This day my Saviour rose, And did inclose this light for his : Who want herbs for their wound. The rest of our Creation Our great Redeemer did remove With the same shake, which at his passion Christ's hands, though nailed, wrought our salvation, The brightnesse of that daye We sullied by our foul offence : Wherefore that robe we cast away, Having a new at his expense, Whose drops of bloud paid the full price, That was requir'd to make us gay, And fit for Paradise. Thou art a day of mirth: And where the week-dayes trail on ground, Thy flight is higher, as thy birth : O let me take thee at the bound, Leaping with thee from sev'n to sev❜n, Till that we both, being toss'd from earth, |