English

SECTION I .

Of Peace and Reconciliation.

The God of peace, whose mighty love
To life restores the dead,
His pow'r to quicken us did prove,
By raising up our Head;

Our Glorious Lord, the Shepherd great
Of all his Father's sheep,
Him brought he victor from the gate
Of death's devouring deep:

Brought thro' the blood, that bought the bliss

SECTION I .

A Saint prepared to die, and assured of Heaven.

Now my departure is at hand:
I've wag'd a warfare good;
Finish'd my course; and to the end,
In Christ hath faithful stood.

Hence, when he comes, there is for me
Laid up a crown of bliss;
With which, by his donation free,
He then my head will grace.

Nor will the righteous Judge alone

SECTION I .

The most excellent Gifts nothing without Love.

Could I with men and angels vie
In language, without love,
Nought, but a sounding brass would I,
Or tinkling cymbal, prove.

Could I both preach and prophecy,
All myst'ries understand;
Have knowledge all ingross'd in me,
All gifts at my command:

Yea, had I faith that could remove

God's knowledge, favour, image, bliss,
Men by the fall have lost:
But Jesus the restorer is
Of all these, to his cost.

Sad evils, positive, with all
Our loss of God attend:
Great ignorance, guilt, filth, and thrall,
Which he alone can mend.

His name hath attributes engrav'd
Most curiously within,
By which we may be fully sav'd
From ev'ry ill in sin.

Weep , weep, you Muses, drain the springs,
Such notes go warble to the strings,
Such dirges as the ravens sound
When ghosts run trembling through the ground:
The fairest of her sex is dead,
Her tender limbs are wrapped in lead;
Her eyes, stars envy, the earth's pride,
The broad black hand of Death does hide;
In Death's dark chamber, now she lies,
Pale as the snow, and cold as ice.

Chorus.

The grave, the lovely grave will bring us ease,
There we shall sweetly sleep in downy peace;

C ELLADON , when Spring came on,
Woo'd Silvia in a grove;
Both gay and young, and still he sung
The sweet delights of love:
Wedded joys, in girls and boys,
And pretty chat of this and that;
The honey kiss, and charming bliss
That crowns the marriage bed.
He snatched her hand, she blushed and fanned,
And seemed as if afraid;
" Forbear, " she cries, " your fawning lies,
I've vowed to die a maid. "

Celladon at that began
To talk of apes in Hell,
And what was worse, the odious curse

My love and I a bargain made,
It is well worth a-telling;
When one was weary we agreed
To part both should be willing.

And thus our loves will longer last
Than fools that still are pining;
We'll spend our time in joy and mirth,
Whilst doaters do in whining.

SECTION I .

Habakkuk's Prayer.

Lord, I have heard thy awful speech,
Which struck my heart with fears;
Revive thy work, Lord, I beseech,
Amidst the woeful years;

Amidst the seventy years of thrall
Make known thy faithfulness;
In wrath, though just, to mind recall
Free mercy prone to bless.

[Our fathers in their lowest state
Thine arm did safe uphold;

" Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God, out of the fish's belly, and said. "

I cry'd to God the Lord most high,
When trouble me befel;
He hear'd, and listen'd to my cry,
From out the womb of hell.

Thou me into the swelling deeps
Amidst the seas hadst cast;
Around the floods, and o'er me heaps,
Of waves and billows past.

Quite from thy sight I'm cast, said I,
And bury'd in the main:

The Fifth Song

S O soon as can a martin from our town
Fly to the river underneath the down,
And back return with mortar in her bill,
Some little cranny in her nest to fill,
The shepherd came, and thus began anew:
Two hours, alas, only two hours are due
From time to him, 'tis sentenc'd so of those
That here on earth as Destinies dispose
The lives and deaths of men; and that time past
He yields his judgment leave and breathes his last.
But to the cause. Great goddess, understand