And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep.
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Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch; At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch; Till the white-wing'd reapers come.Henry Vaughan
I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled.
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Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God order'd motion, but ordain'd no rest.
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Dear Night this world's defeat The stop to busy fools care's check and curb The day of spirits my soul's calm retreat Which none disturb Christ's progress, and His prayer-time The hours to which high Heaven cloth chime.
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Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.
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