. Hermathenæ; or, Moral emblems, and ethnick tales, with explanatory notes . Elmblkm (9-; ). Emblem XXXLn^e PATRIARCH. WHEN, warnd by Heavn, the faithfulPatriarch fled,To court a Foreign Beauty to his Bed,Thro Paths unknown and dreary Wafts he ftrayM,Relignd and brave, to feek the promised Maid:The purhng ChryftaPs Hmpid Stream, at Noon,CooPd his warm Lip j each Night Tome Ihady GloomOf twLning Woodbinds, Emblem of true Love^The Pride and Glory of the fragrant Grove,Or fome fweet flowry Bank high curtaind oerWith Heavns deep Aziirc, fummond him to Reft; Contented (96 ) Contented and ferenc, he
. Hermathenæ; or, Moral emblems, and ethnick tales, with explanatory notes . Elmblkm (9-; ). Emblem XXXLn^e PATRIARCH. WHEN, warnd by Heavn, the faithfulPatriarch fled,To court a Foreign Beauty to his Bed,Thro Paths unknown and dreary Wafts he ftrayM,Relignd and brave, to feek the promised Maid:The purhng ChryftaPs Hmpid Stream, at Noon,CooPd his warm Lip j each Night Tome Ihady GloomOf twLning Woodbinds, Emblem of true Love^The Pride and Glory of the fragrant Grove,Or fome fweet flowry Bank high curtaind oerWith Heavns deep Aziirc, fummond him to Reft; Contented (96 ) Contented and ferenc, he aikd no more, Rich without State, and without Grandeur blcfsd. While tlius the wandring CJiargc of Heavn obcyM, Undoubtful^of the End what Heavn decreed. As peaceful Slumbers foothd his daily Pains Beneath a Ipreading Oak in BctbePs Plains, The Mtber glows, Angelic Worlds appear. And all the Glories of the dazzling Sphere; A glittring Scroll of Light unlaps its Fire, Down verging to the Earth, on which the Choir Of flaming Seraphs trod j as if the Way Twixt Heavn and Nature in that Sun-
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