In Salem dwelt a glorious King, Raised from a shepherd’s lowly sta… That did His praises like an ange… Who did the World create. By many great and bloody wars

My contemplation dazzles in the E… Of all I comprehend, And soars above all heights, Diving into the depths of all deli… Can He become the End,

To walk abroad is, not with eyes, But thoughts, the fields to see an… Else may the silent feet, Like logs of wood, Move up and down, and see no good

Give but to things their true este… And those which now so vile and wo… Will so much fill and please the m… That we shall there the only riche… How wise was I

Sin! O only fatal woe, That mak’st me sad and mourning go… That all my joys dost spoil, His Kingdom and my Soul defile!

In making bodies Love could not e… Itself, or art, unless it made the… O what a monster had in man been s… Had every thumb or toe a mountain… What worlds must he devour when he…

These little limbs, These eyes and hands which here I… These rosy cheeks wherewith my lif… Where have ye been? behind What curtain were ye from me hid s…

I saw new worlds beneath the water… New people; ye, another sky And sun, which seen by day Might things more clear display. Just such another

A learned and a happy ignorance Divided me From all the vanity, From all the sloth, care, pain, an… The madness and the misery

To see us but receive, is such a s… As makes His treasures infinite! Because His goodness doth possess In us, His own, and our own bless… Yea, more, His love doth take del…

To the same purpose: he, not long… Brought home from nurse, going to… To do some little thing He must not do within, With wonder cries,

What powerful Spirit lives within… What active Angel doth inhabit he… What heavenly light inspires my sk… Which doth so like a Deity appear… A living Temple of all ages, I

As in the house I sate, Alone and desolate, No creature but the fire and I, The chimney and the stool, I lift… Up to the wall,

His Power bounded, greater is in… Than if let loose, ’twere wholly i… He could have made an endless sea… But then it had not been a sea of… Did waters from the centre to the…