PRAYER the Churches banquet, Angels age,\u00a0
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Gods breath in man returning to his birth,\u00a0
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,\u00a0
The Christian plummet sounding heav\u2019n and earth\u00a0;<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nEngine against th\u2019 Almightie, sinner\u2019s towre,\u00a0
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear,\u00a0
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The six daies world-transposing in an houre,\u00a0
A kinde of tune, which all things heare and fear\u00a0;<\/b>\u00a0<\/p>\n
Softnesse, and peace, and joy, and love, and blisse,\u00a0
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Exalted Manna, gladnesse of the best,\u00a0
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Heaven in ordinarie, man well drest,\u00a0
The milkie way, the bird of Paradise,\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Church-bels beyond the stars heard, the souls bloud,\u00a0
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The land of spices, something understood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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