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,

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…

A life of Sabbaths here beneath! Continual jubilees and joys! The days of Heaven, while we brea… On Earth! where Sin all Bliss de… This is a triumph of delights

Sure Man was born to meditate on… And to contemplate the eternal spr… Of God and Nature, glory, bliss,… That life and love might be his H… And therefore speechless made at f…

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,

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…

Much more for the regent life, And power of perception, Which rules within. That secret depth of fathomless co… That receives the information

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…

……. An unperceived donor gave all plea… There nothing was but I, and all… In that fair world, One only was… One golden stream, one spring, one…

One star Is better far Than many precious stones; One sun, which is by its own luste… Is worth ten thousand golden thron…

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

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,

O Nectar! O delicious stream! O ravishing and only pleasure! Wh… Shall such another theme Inspire my tongue with joys or ple… Abridgement of delights!

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

From A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation of the Mercies of God O Lord, the children of my people are Thy peculiar treasures, So much my treasure that all other wealth is without them...