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Some syllables are swords.

Still young and fine! but what is still in view We slight as old and soil'd, though fresh and new.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

But felt through all this fleshly dresse Bright shootes of everlastingnesse.

Mornings are mysteries; the first world's youth,
Man's resurrection, and the future's bud
Shroud in their births.

Death, and darkness get you packing, Nothing now to man is lacking, All your triumphs now are ended, And what Adam marred, is mended.

I played with fire, did counsel spurn, Made life my common stake; But never thought that fire would burn, O that a soul could ache.

Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.

As great a store
Have we of books as bees of herbs or more.

Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move, And when this dust falls to the urn In that state I came, return.

If thou canst but thither, There grows the flower of Peace, The Rose that cannot wither, Thy fortress and thy ease.

The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.

Early, as well as late,
Rise with the sun, and set in the same bowers

For each inclosed spirit is a star
Enlightening his own little sphere

Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just.

The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings.

As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing.

Holy writing must strive (by all means) for perfection and true holiness, that a door may be opened to him in heaven.

Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest.

Affliction is a mother,
Whose painful throes yield many sons,
Each fairer than the other.

Prayer is The world in tune, A spirit-voyce, And vocall joyes, Whose Eccho is heaven's blisse.