. Emblems divine and moral ; together with Hieroglyphics of the life of man . xxiii. 25. //■7y0?n ha-JS I in heaven but thee j and what define I :•- emth in rejpe5l of thee f I. I LOVE (and have feme caufe to love) the earth ;She is ray Makers creature; therefore good;She is my mother, for fhe gave me birth :She is my tender nurfe; fhe gives me food : But whats a creature, Lord, compared with thee ?Or whats my mother, or my nurfe, to me f 2. I love the air \ her dainty fwects refrefliMy drooping foul, and to new fweets invite me ;Her {hrill-mouthd choirs fuflain me with their flefli^And with t
. Emblems divine and moral ; together with Hieroglyphics of the life of man . xxiii. 25. //■7y0?n ha-JS I in heaven but thee j and what define I :•- emth in rejpe5l of thee f I. I LOVE (and have feme caufe to love) the earth ;She is ray Makers creature; therefore good;She is my mother, for fhe gave me birth :She is my tender nurfe; fhe gives me food : But whats a creature, Lord, compared with thee ?Or whats my mother, or my nurfe, to me f 2. I love the air \ her dainty fwects refrefliMy drooping foul, and to new fweets invite me ;Her {hrill-mouthd choirs fuflain me with their flefli^And with their Polyphonian * notes delight me :But whats the air, or all the fwects, that fheCan blefs my ibul withal, compared to thee f 3-I love the fea ; fhe is my fellow-creature,My careful purveyor f ; flie provides me (lore :She walls me round ; fhe makes my diet greater wafts my treafure from a foreign fhore : But, Lord of oceans,, when compared with thee^What is the ocean,, or her wealthy to me I • Polyphonum-^ i, e. many-founding,i, f, orosidePi To- ^X.£ml.€.. Pl^bn. 25 J^ookV. E M B L E M S. 20<5 4-To heavos high city I direcl my journevjWhofe fpaiigifd fuburhsventertain my eye;Mine eye, by contemplations great attorney,Tranfcends the cryflal pavement of the fky : But what is heavn, great God, compated to thee?■ Without thy prefence, heavens no heavn to me^. Without thy prefence, earth gives no refection * ; Without thy prefence, fea affords no treafure j Without thy prefence, airs a rank infe6lion ; Without thy prefence, heavn itfelfs no pleafure:If not pofTefsd, if not enjoyd in earth, or fea, or air, or heavn, to me?6. The higheft honors that the world can boaft Are fubjecls far too low for my dellre; Its brighteft beams of glory are (at moft) But dymg fparkles of tiiy living fire ; The proudeft flames, th^^t earth can kindle, bf»But nightly glow-worms, if eompared to thee. 7-Without thy prefence, wealth are bags, of cares ; Wifdom, but fo
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