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Rapt with the rage of mine own ravish'd thought	A
Through contemplation of those goodly sights	B
And glorious images in heaven wrought	A
Whose wondrous beauty breathing sweet delights	B
Do kindle love in high conceited sprights	B
I fain to tell the things that I behold	C
But feel my wits to fail and tongue to fold	C
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Vouchsafe then O thou most Almighty Spright	C
From whom all gifts of wit and knowledge flow	D
To shed into my breast some sparkling light	C
Of thine eternal truth that I may show	D
Some little beams to mortal eyes below	D
Of that immortal beauty there with thee	E
Which in my weak distraughted mind I see	E
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That with the glory of so goodly sight	C
The hearts of men which fondly here admire	F
Fair seeming shews and feed on vain delight	C
Transported with celestial desire	G
Of those fair forms may lift themselves up higher	G
And learn to love with zealous humble duty	E
Th' eternal fountain of that heavenly beauty	E
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Beginning then below with th' easy view	H
Of this base world subject to fleshly eye	I
From thence to mount aloft by order due	H
To contemplation of th' immortal sky	I
Of the soare falcon so I learn to fly	I
That flags awhile her fluttering wings beneath	J
Till she herself for stronger flight can breathe	K
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Then look who list thy gazeful eyes to feed	C
With sight of that is fair look on the frame	L
Of this wide universe and therein reed	C
The endless kinds of creatures which by name	L
Thou canst not count much less their natures aim	L
All which are made with wondrous wise respect	C
And all with admirable beauty deckt	C
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First th' earth on adamantine pillars founded	C
Amid the sea engirt with brazen bands	B
Then th' air still flitting but yet firmly bounded	C
On every side with piles of flaming brands	B
Never consum'd nor quench'd with mortal hands	B
And last that mighty shining crystal wall	M
Wherewith he hath encompassed this All	M
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By view whereof it plainly may appear	N
That still as every thing doth upward tend	C
And further is from earth so still more clear	N
And fair it grows till to his perfect end	C
Of purest beauty it at last ascend	C
Air more than water fire much more than air	O
And heaven than fire appears more pure and fair	O
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Look thou no further but affix thine eye	I
On that bright shiny round still moving mass	B
The house of blessed gods which men call sky	I
All sow'd with glist'ring stars more thick than grass	B
Whereof each other doth in brightness pass	B
But those two most which ruling night and day	C
As king and queen the heavens' empire sway	C
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And tell me then what hast thou ever seen	P
That to their beauty may compared be	E
Or can the sight that is most sharp and keen	P
Endure their captain's flaming head to see	E
How much less those much higher in degree	E
And so much fairer and much more than these	B
As these are fairer than the land and seas	B
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For far above these heavens which here we see	E
Be others far exceeding these in light	C
Not bounded not corrupt as these same be	E
But infinite in largeness and in height	C
Unmoving uncorrupt and spotless bright	C
That need no sun t' illuminate their spheres	B
But their own native light far passing theirs	B
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And as these heavens still by degrees arise	B
Until they come to their first Mover's bound	C
That in his mighty compass doth comprise	B
And carry all the rest with him around	C
So those likewise do by degrees redound	C
And rise more fair till they at last arrive	Q
To the most fair whereto they all do strive	Q
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Fair is the heaven where happy souls have place	B
In full enjoyment of felicity	E
Whence they do still behold the glorious face	B
Of the divine eternal Majesty	E
More fair is that where those Ideas on high	I
Enranged be which Plato so admired	C
And pure Intelligences from God inspired	C
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Yet fairer is that heaven in which do reign	R
The sovereign Powers and mighty Potentates	B
Which in their high protections do contain	R
All mortal princes and imperial states	B
And fairer yet whereas the royal Seats	B
And heavenly Dominations are set	C
From whom all earthly governance is fet	C
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Yet far more fair be those bright Cherubins	B
Which all with golden wings are overdight	C
And those eternal burning Seraphins	B
Which from their faces dart out fiery light	C
Yet fairer than they both and much more bright	C
Be th' Angels and Archangels which attend	C
On God's own person without rest or end	C
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These thus in fair each other far excelling	S
As to the highest they approach more near	N
Yet is that highest far beyond all telling	S
Fairer than all the rest which there appear	N
Though all their beauties join'd together were	G
How then can mortal tongue hope to express	B
The image of such endless perfectness	B
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Cease then my tongue and lend unto my mind	C
Leave to bethink how great that beauty is	B
Whose utmost parts so beautiful I find	C
How much more those essential parts of his	B
His truth his love his wisdom and his bliss	B
His grace his doom his mercy and his might	C
By which he lends us of himself a sight	C
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Those unto all he daily doth display	C
And shew himself in th' image of his grace	B
As in a looking glass through which he may	C
Be seen of all his creatures vile and base	B
That are unable else to see his face	B
His glorious face which glistereth else so bright	C
That th' Angels selves cannot endure his sight	C
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But we frail wights whose sight cannot sustain	R
The sun's bright beams when he on us doth shine	T
But that their points rebutted back again	U
Are dull'd how can we see with feeble eyne	U
The glory of that Majesty Divine	U
In sight of whom both sun and moon are dark	V
Compared to his least resplendent spark	V
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The means therefore which unto us is lent	C
Him to behold is on his works to look	W
Which he hath made in beauty excellent	C
And in the same as in a brazen book	W
To read enregister'd in every nook	W
His goodness which his beauty doth declare	O
For all that's good is beautiful and fair	O
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Thence gathering plumes of perfect speculation	U
To imp the wings of thy high flying mind	C
Mount up aloft through heavenly contemplation	U
From this dark world whose damps the soul so blind	C
And like the native brood of eagles' kind	C
On that bright Sun of Glory fix thine eyes	B
Clear'd from gross mists of frail infirmities	B
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Humbled with fear and awful reverence	B
Before the footstool of his majesty	C
Throw thyself down with trembling innocence	B
Ne dare look up with corruptible eye	I
On the dread face of that great Deity	C
For fear lest if he chance to look on thee	C
Thou turn to nought and quite confounded be	C
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But lowly fall before his mercy seat	C
Close covered with the Lamb's integrity	C
From the just wrath of his avengeful threat	C
That sits upon the righteous throne on high	I
His throne is built upon eternity	C
More firm and durable than steel or brass	B
Or the hard diamond which them both doth pass	B
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His sceptre is the rod of righteousness	B
With which he bruiseth all his foes to dust	C
And the great Dragon strongly doth repress	B
Under the rigour of his judgement just	C
His seat is truth to which the faithful trust	C
From whence proceed her beams so pure and bright	C
That all about him sheddeth glorious light	C
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Light far exceeding that bright blazing spark	V
Which darted is from Titan's flaming head	C
That with his beams enlumineth the dark	V
And dampish air whereby all things are read	C
Whose nature yet so much is marvelled	C
Of mortal wits that it doth much amaze	B
The greatest wizards which thereon do gaze	B
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But that immortal light which there doth shine	U
Is many thousand times more bright more clear	N
More excellent more glorious more divine	U
Through which to God all mortal actions here	X
And even the thoughts of men do plain appear	N
For from th' eternal truth it doth proceed	C
Through heavenly virtue which her beams do breed	C
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With the great glory of that wondrous light	C
His throne is all encompassed around	C
And hid in his own brightness from the sight	C
Of all that look ther	N