The fleeting Joys which all affords below
Work the fond heart with unperforming show
And vanish off as snows that swiftly fail
Thawd by the breathings of a Vernall gale
The Wish that makes our happier life compleat
Nor grasps the wealth nor honours of the great
Nor loosely sailes on Pleasures easy stream
Nor crops for Lawrels all ye groves of Fame
Weak man who charms to these alone confine
Attend my prayr & learn to make it thine
From thy rich throne where circling trains of light
Make day that's endless infinitely bright
Thence heavnly Father thence with pitty dart
One beam of brightness to my longing heart
Dawn through the mind drive Errors clouds away
And still the rage in Passions troubled sea
That the poor banishd soul serene and free
May rise from Earth to visit heavn & thee
Come Peace Divine shed gently from above
Inspire my willing bosome wondrous Love
Thy Purple pinnions to my shoulders ty
And point the passage where I want to fly.
But whither whither now what powrfull fire
With this blest influence equals my desire
I rise (or love the kind Deluder reigns
and acts in fancy such enchanted scenes)
Earth lessning flys the parting skys retreat
The fleecy clouds my waving feathers beat
And now the sun and now the starrs are gon
And still methinks the spirit bears me on
Where Tracts of Æther purer blue display
And edge the golden realm of native day
Oh strange Enjoyment of a bliss unseen
Oh ravishment Oh sacred rage within
Tumultuous Pleasure raisd on peace of mind
Sincere excessive from the world refind
I see the light that veiles the throne on high
A light unpiercd by mans impurer eye
I hear the words which issuing thence proclaim
That Gods attendants praise his awfull name
Then heads unnumberd bend before the shrine
Mysterious seat of Majesty divine
And hands unnumberd strike the silver String
And tongues unnumberd Halelujah sing
See where the shining seraphims appear
And sink their decent eyes with holy fear
See flights of Angels all their feathers raise
Range the vast heigths and as they range they praise
Behold the great Apostles sweetly met
And high on Curles of Azure Æther sett
Behold the Prophets full of Heavnly fire
With wandring fingers wake the tunefull lyre
And hear the Martyrs sing and all around
The Church Triumphant make the region sound
With harps with Crowns of Gold with boughs of green
With robes of white the pious throngs are seen
Exalted Anthems all their hours employ
And all is musick and excess of Joy
Charmd with the sight I long to bear my part
The pleasure flutters at my ravishd heart
Sweet saints and Angels Heavns immortall Quire
If Love have warmd me with celestial fire
Assist my words and as they move along
With Halelujah crown the burthend Song
Father of all above and all below
O great and farr beyond expression so
No bounds thy knowledge none thy powr confine
For powr and knowledge in their source are thine
Around thee glory spreads her golden wing
Sing glittering Angels Halelujah sing
Son of the Father first begotten son
Ere the short measuring line of Time begun
The world has seen thy workes & Joyd to see
His bright Effulgence manifest in thee
The world must own thee Loves unfathomd spring
Sing glittering Angels Halelujah sing
Proceeding Spirit equally divine
In whom the Godheads full perfections shine
With various grace with comfort unexprest
With Holy transport you refine the breast
And Earth grows heavnly where your gifts you bring
Sing Glittering Angels Halelujah sing
But wheres my rapture where my wondrous heat
What interruption makes my bliss retreat
This worlds got in the thoughts of T'other crosst
And the fair pictures in my fancy Lost
With what an eager zeal the Conscious Soul
Woud seek its home & soaring pass the Pole
But our attempts these chains of earth restrain
Deride the toil and drag us down again
So from the ground aspiring Meteors goe
And rankd with Planets light the world below
But their own bodys sink them in the Sky
When the warmths gon by which they learnd to fly.
