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,

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

The Prospect was the Gate of Hea… The ancient Light of Eden did con… Into my Soul: I was an Adam ther… A little Adam in a Sphere Of Joys! O there my Ravished sen…

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…

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

For giving me desire, An eager thirst, a burning ardent… A virgin infant flame, A love with which into the world… An inward hidden heavenly love,

That childish thoughts such joys i… Doth make my wonder, and His glor… His bounty, and my wealth .more gr… It chews His Kingdom, and His wo… In which there is not anything,

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…

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

How like an angel came I down! How bright are all things here! When first among his works I did… O how their glory me did crown! The world resembled his eternity,

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…

But that which most I wonder at,… I did esteem my bliss, which most… And ever shall enjoy, is that with… I felt no stain, nor spot of sin. No darkness then did overshade,

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!

……. 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…

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