Unto the spring of purest life Aspires my withered heart, My soul confined in this flesh Employs both strength and art, Working, struggling, suing still

My contemplation dazzles in the E… Of all I comprehend, And soars above all heights, Diving into the depths of all deli… Can He become the End,

In Salem dwelt a glorious King, Raised from a shepherd’s lowly sta… That did His praises like an ange… Who did the World create. By many great and bloody wars

Much more for the regent life, And power of perception, Which rules within. That secret depth of fathomless co… That receives the information

Give but to things their true este… And those which now so vile and wo… Will so much fill and please the m… That we shall there the only riche… How wise was I

A learned and a happy ignorance Divided me From all the vanity, From all the sloth, care, pain, an… The madness and the misery

In making bodies Love could not e… Itself, or art, unless it made the… O what a monster had in man been s… Had every thumb or toe a mountain… What worlds must he devour when he…

How like an angel came I down! How bright are all things here! When first among his works I did… O how their glory me did crown! The world resembled his eternity,

But that which most I wonder at,… I did esteem my bliss, which most… And ever shall enjoy, is that with… I felt no stain, nor spot of sin. No darkness then did overshade,

From A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation of the Mercies of God O Lord, the children of my people are Thy peculiar treasures, So much my treasure that all other wealth is without them...

The Prospect was the Gate of Hea… The ancient Light of Eden did con… Into my Soul: I was an Adam ther… A little Adam in a Sphere Of Joys! O there my Ravished sen…

What powerful Spirit lives within… What active Angel doth inhabit he… What heavenly light inspires my sk… Which doth so like a Deity appear… A living Temple of all ages, I

……. An unperceived donor gave all plea… There nothing was but I, and all… In that fair world, One only was… One golden stream, one spring, one…

That childish thoughts such joys i… Doth make my wonder, and His glor… His bounty, and my wealth .more gr… It chews His Kingdom, and His wo… In which there is not anything,