The Works in Verse and Prose Complete of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume 1

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Página 17 - Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
Página 17 - I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave : I am deprived of the residue of my years. I said, I shall not see the LORD, Even the LORD, in the land of the living : I shall behold man no more With the inhabitants of the world.
Página 183 - He that hath found some fledged bird's nest may know At first sight if the bird be flown ; But what fair well or grove he sings in now, That is to him unknown. And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep.
Página 122 - fill the sky? Shall it in the evening run When our words and works are done ? Or will Thy all-surprising light Break at midnight, When either sleep, or some dark pleasure Possesseth mad man without measure ? Or shall these early, fragrant hours Unlock Thy...
Página 192 - O thou immortal! light and heat! Whose hand so shines through all this frame, That by the beauty of the seat. We plainly see, who made the same.
Página 10 - I have by his saving assistance supprest my greatest follies, and those which escaped from me are, I think, as innoxious as most of that vein use to be ; besides, they are interlined with many virtuous and some pious mixtures.
Página 184 - O Father of eternal life, and all Created glories under Thee, Resume thy spirit from this world of thrall Into true liberty. Either disperse these mists, which blot and fill My perspective still as they pass ; Or else remove me hence unto that hill, Where I shall need no glass.
Página 87 - Or some poor high-way herb, or Spring To flow, or bird to sing ! Then should I (tyed to one sure state,) All day expect my date ; But I am sadly loose, and stray A giddy blast each way; O let me not thus range! Thou canst not change.
Página 98 - All mutinous thoughts, what busines e'r thou hast Observe God in his works ; here fountains flow, Birds sing, Beasts feed, Fish leap, and th' 'Earth stands fast ; Above are resiles motions, running Lights, Vast Circling Azure, giddy Clouds, days, nights.
Página 17 - Behold, for peace I had great bitterness : but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption : for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

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