. Quarles' emblems . Men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds areevil.—John hi. 19. Lord, when we leave the world and come to thee, How dull, how slug are we 1How backward ! How prepostrous is the motion Of our ungain devotion !Our thoughts are millstones, and our souls are lead. And our desires are dead :Our vows are fairly promisd, faintly paid ; Or broken, or not made :Our better work (if any good) attends Upon our private ends :In whose performance one poor worldly scoff Foils us, or beats us thy sharp scourge find out some secret fault, We grumble or revolt;And if t

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. Quarles' emblems . Men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds areevil.—John hi. 19. Lord, when we leave the world and come to thee, How dull, how slug are we 1How backward ! How prepostrous is the motion Of our ungain devotion !Our thoughts are millstones, and our souls are lead. And our desires are dead :Our vows are fairly promisd, faintly paid ; Or broken, or not made :Our better work (if any good) attends Upon our private ends :In whose performance one poor worldly scoff Foils us, or beats us thy sharp scourge find out some secret fault, We grumble or revolt;And if thy gentle hand forbear, we stray. Or idly lose the the road fair, we loiter ; cloggd with mire. We stick, or else retire : S6 Qiiarles Embletns. A lamb appears a lion ; and we fear, Each bush we sees a our dull souls direct our thoughts to thee. As slow as snails are we :But at the earth we dart our wingd desire; We burn, we burn like as the amrous needle joys to bend To her magnetic frie

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