. Emblems, divine and moral : The school of the heart; and Hieroglyphics of the life of man . ld greedy of a place which I may bestowMy choicest love;And soObtainThat favour, whichExcels all worldly gain,And maketh the possessor richIn happiness of a transcendent strain. What ! must I still be rooted here below,And riveted unto the ground, Wherein mine haste to grow THE HEART. 353 Will be, though sound,But slow ?I knowThe sun exhalesGross vapours from , scorning as it were the mountain-topping clouds themselves bestow. But my fault-frozen heart is slow to
. Emblems, divine and moral : The school of the heart; and Hieroglyphics of the life of man . ld greedy of a place which I may bestowMy choicest love;And soObtainThat favour, whichExcels all worldly gain,And maketh the possessor richIn happiness of a transcendent strain. What ! must I still be rooted here below,And riveted unto the ground, Wherein mine haste to grow THE HEART. 353 Will be, though sound,But slow ?I knowThe sun exhalesGross vapours from , scorning as it were the mountain-topping clouds themselves bestow. But my fault-frozen heart is slow to poor proceedings at the best,As though it did not long for eyesCan upward though they did despiseAll things on earth, and could not brookTheir presence : but mine heart is slow to rise. Oh that it were once winged like the dove,That in a moment mounts on high,Then should it soon removeWhere it may lieIn lo,This one desireMethinks have impM it it already flies like fire,And e^en my verses into wings do grow. A A 354 THE SCHOOL OF. Ef)t WLnion of tlje l^eart, Live ye united minds, and social hearts,To whom one love but one deshe imparts. EZEK. XI. 19. / will give them one heart. Epig. 39. IKE-MINDED minds, hearts alike heartily Affected, will together live and die :Many things meet and part : but loves great cable,Tying two hearts, makes them inseparable. L THE HEAET. 355 ODE XXXIX. The this is not enough : methinks I grow-More greedy by fruition : what I getServes but to setAn edge upon mine appetite,And all thy gifts do but inviteMy prayrs for , if thou wilt not still increase my store,Why didst thou anything at all bestow : is \ the fruit of having still to crave ?Then let thine heart united be to mine to thine,In a firm union, whereby,We may no more be thou and I,Or I and both the same : and then I will canst not want what thou dost wish to have. The
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