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And though both see, yet both but one thing tell.
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The forms of Moon and Sun, and evry star
Of ev'ry body, and of every place, lita 29v9 10
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When God in them shall heav'nly light infuse, TM
That face to face they may their Maker sec.
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Here are they guides, which do the body lead,
Which else would stumble in eternal nighted
Here in this world they do much knowledge read,
And are the casements which admit most light?
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They are her furthest reaching instrument,
Yet they no beams unto their objects send;
But all the rays are from their objects sent,
And in the eyes with pointed angles end.

If th' objects be far off, the rays do meet

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These wickets of the soul are plac'd on high, và
Because all sounds do lightly mount aloft ;
And that they may not pierce too violently, on
They are delay'd with turns and windings oft

For should the voice directly strike the brain,
It would astonish and confuse it much;
Therefore these plaits and folds the sound restrain,
That it the organ may more gently touch.

As streams, which with their winding banks do play,
Stopp'd by their creeks, run softly through the
So in th' ear's labyrinth the voice doth stray, [plain
And doth with easy motion touch the brain.

This is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense;
For e'en the ears of such as have no skill,
Perceive a discord, and conceive offence;
And, knowing not what's good, yet find the ill.

And though this sense first gentle music found;
Her proper object is the speech of men ;ovie
But that speech chiefly which God's heralds sound,
When their tongues utter what his spirit did pen.

Our eyes have lids, our ears still ope we see,~~
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Our eyes still move, our ears unmoyed be;
That though we hear quick, wel be not quickly
mov'd.

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But after, by discoursing to and fro,

Anticipating and comparing things

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When her assent she lightly doth incline
To either part, she is opinion's light:

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A certain truth, she hath true judgment's sight.

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And yet these sparks grow almost infinite,
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Being nourishment holdeth it,
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Yet they, whom that just One hath justify'd, [sin,
Have them increas'd with heav'nly light within;
And like the widow's oil, still multiply'd.

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Although they say, “Come let us eat and drink,

Our life is but a spark, which quickly dies :"
Though thus they say, they know not what to think;
But in their minds ten thousand doubts arise.
Therefore no heretics desire to spread 6lonak
Their light opinions, like these epicures;'!-
For so their stagg'ring thoughts are comforted,
And other men's assent their doubt assures.

Yet though these men against their conscience strive,
There are some sparkles in their flinty breasts,
Which cannot be extinct, but still revive;

That though they would, they cannot quite be
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With this desire, she hath a native might

To find out ev'ry truth, if she had time;
Th' innumerable effects to sort aright,
And by degrees, from cause to cause to climb.

But since our life so fast away doth slide,

As doth a hungry eagle through the wind;

Or as a ship transported with the tide,

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Which in their passage leave no print behind.

Of which swift little time so much we spend,

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Than the well-head, from whence it first doth
Then since to eternal God she doth aspire, [spring:
She cannot be but an eternal thinged of HT

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Of the same kind which shows their nature such:"
So earth falls down, and fire doth mount above,
Till both their proper elements do touch of T

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Sucks from the sea, to fill her empty vēlas",
From out her womb at last doth take a birthge 1:
And runs a lymph along the grassy plains 50

Long doth she stay, as loath to leave the land,207
From whose soft side she first did issue make!:
She tastes all places, turns to ev'ry hand, 2079 79H
Her flow'ry banks unwilling to forsake!semiH

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As that her course doth make no final stay
Till she herself unto the ocean marry,ənə əz9dı ya
Within whose watry bosom first she lay.

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E'en so the soul, which in this earthly mould
The spirit of God doth secretly infused di
Because at first she doth the earth behold,pesdT
And only this material world she views ode tud
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At first her mother-earth she holdeth dear,
And doth embrace the world, and worldly things
She flies close by the ground, and hovers here,2
And mounts not up with her celestial winged W

Yet under Heav'n she cannot light on aught

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She cannot rest, she cannot fix her thought, eidT
She cannot in this world contented beaasiq edT
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For who did ever yet, in honour, wealth,
Or pleasure of the sense, contentniënt find a toẩ

While some few things we through the sense do Who ever ceas'd to wish, when he had healthT

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Then as a bee which among weeds doth fall,
Which seem sweet flow'rs, with lustre fresh and
She lights on that, and this, and tasteth ally gay;
But, pleas'd with none, doth rise, and sour away!
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So, when the soul finds here no true content,
And, like Noah's dove, can no sure footing take,
She doth return from whence she first was sent,
And flies to him that first her wings did make

tros retta all notesh to tamatnos mori
Wit, seeking truth, from cause to cause ascends,
And never rests till it the first attained so
Will, seeking good, finds many middle endes d

But never stays till it the last do gain, notw 707

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Since then her heav'nly kind she doth display,101
In that to God she doth directly move;

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When, with the motions of both will and wit,

She still aspireth to eternity,

And never rests, till she attain to it?

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