MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. On Time. |
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.On Time.
FLY envious Time, till thou run out thy race,
Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours,
Whose speed is but the heavy Plummets pace;
And glut thy self with what thy womb devours,
Which is no more then what is false and vain,
And meerly mortal dross;
So little is our loss,
So little is thy gain.
For when as each thing bad thou hast entomb`d,
And last of all, thy greedy self consum`d,
Then long Eternity shall greet our bliss
With an individual kiss;
And Joy shall overtake us as a flood,
When every thing that is sincerely good
And perfectly divine,
With Truth, and Peace, and Love shall ever shine
About the supreme Throne
Of him, t`whose happy-making sight alone,
When once our heav`nly-guided soul shall clime,
Then all this Earthy grosnes quit,
Attir`d with Stars, we shall for ever sit,
Triumphing over Death, and Chance, and thee O Time.
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