. Quarles' emblems: illustrated by Charles Bennett and W. Harry Rogers . Lighten mine eyes, O Lord, lest L sleep the sleep of death.—Psalm xiii. 3. Will t neer be morning ? Will that promisd lightNeer break, and clear those clouds of night ?Sweet Phosphor, bring the day,Whose conquring rayMay chase these fogs; sweet Phosphor, bring the day. How long ! How long shall these benighted eyes Languish in shades, like feeble fliesExpecting spring ? How long shall darkness soil The face of earth, and thus beguileOur souls of sprightful action % When, when will day Begin to dawn, whose new-born rayMay

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. Quarles' emblems: illustrated by Charles Bennett and W. Harry Rogers . Lighten mine eyes, O Lord, lest L sleep the sleep of death.—Psalm xiii. 3. Will t neer be morning ? Will that promisd lightNeer break, and clear those clouds of night ?Sweet Phosphor, bring the day,Whose conquring rayMay chase these fogs; sweet Phosphor, bring the day. How long ! How long shall these benighted eyes Languish in shades, like feeble fliesExpecting spring ? How long shall darkness soil The face of earth, and thus beguileOur souls of sprightful action % When, when will day Begin to dawn, whose new-born rayMay gild the weathercocks of our devotion, And give our unsould souls new motion 1Sweet Phosphor, bring the day ;The light will frayThese horrid mists ; sweet Phosphor, bring the day. 60 Quarles Emblems. Let those have night, that slily love t immure Their cloisterd crimes, and sin secure;Let those have night, that blush to let men know The baseness they neer blush to do;Let those have night that love to have a nap, And loll in ignorances lap;Let those, whose eyes, like

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