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Show i^i TWEMS> The winged Quire onbevery tree By Caroling melodiouslyy D o the declining Sun purfue, With their laft'homage, and'iailieu, i From the next Cottages I hear Voices well known unto m y Ear : They are of our Domefticks w ho D o pipe, and holloltfibrius too.. The Flocks and Herds do homewards go I hear them hither {^eat and low, Thy Eyes which mine fo rnuch admire, Tell metis time w e fhould retire. Go then deftroying fair one, go, Since I perceive it muft be fo,; Sleep tweedy all the night, but'be, At leaft, fokind to dream of me. •i3V< cT -!-u -?• i ; ' : qpy,' IA rlT o 01 3 4 Tranflathn of Thomas,<a Kmpis jntoi Verfe, out Monf. CorneilleV&. §, cap. 2. Englifbed. S P e a k , Gracious Lord, thy fervant hears, For I both a m and will, be fo, And in thy pleafant paths will go W h e n the Sun fhiq^ or dilappears. 0 Give m e thy Spirit, that I m a y perceive/ W h a t by mj£$fl»fetjiou wouldft have done: Let m e have no defire, but one, Thy will to praaife.and believe. But yet thy Eloquence difarni, And as a whifper td m y heart, Let it, like dev^lenty impart, And likel^iet.^gseely-cl^rm. r ^ *i i • 5 V TQ.HMS> m The Jews fear'd ThundertMtsAVould fall, And that thy words would Death procure. Nor in the Defart could endure. [ To hear their Maker fpeak at all. They court Mofes to declare thy will, I And begg'd to hear no more thy voiced , They could not.ftand the dreadful noife* Left it fhould both furprize and kill. : Without thofe terrours, I implore,' | | And other favours I entreat, With confident^ though humble heart, I beg what Samuel did of yore. . Though thou art all that I can dread, Thy voice is mufick to m y ears; Speak Lord then, for thy Servant hears, And will obey what thou haft faid* <} I ask no Mofes that for thee fhould (peak, , Nor Prophet to enlighten m e ; They all are taught and fent oy thee, And 'tis thy voice I only feek. Thofe beams proceed from thee alone, Which through their words on us do flow 5 Thou without them canft all beftow, But they without thee can give none. They may repeat the found of words, But not confer their hidden force, And without thee, their beft difcourfe* Nothing but fcorn to m e n affords. Let them thy Miracles impart, And vigoroufly thy will declare ; Their voice, prehaps, m a y ftrike the Ear, But it can never move the heart. |