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Henry Vaughan quotes: Some syllables are swords.

Some syllables are swords.

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

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

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

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

Henry Vaughan quotes: But felt through all this fleshly dresse Bright shootes of everlastingnesse.

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

Henry Vaughan quotes: Mornings are mysteries; the first world's youth,Man's resurrection, and the future's budShroud in their births.

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

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

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

Henry Vaughan quotes: 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.

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.

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

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

Henry Vaughan quotes: As great a storeHave we of books as bees of herbs or more.

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

Henry Vaughan quotes: 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Henry Vaughan quotes: Early, as well as late,Rise with the sun, and set in the same bowers

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

Henry Vaughan quotes: For each inclosed spirit is a starEnlightening his own little sphere

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

Henry Vaughan quotes: Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just.

Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just.

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

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

Henry Vaughan quotes: As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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