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Thomas Traherne - LoveThomas Traherne - Love
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O Nectar! O delicious stream!        O ravishing and only pleasure! Where        Shall such another theme   Inspire my tongue with joys or please mine ear!        Abridgement of delights!        And Queen of sights!   O mine of rarities! O Kingdom wide!   O more! O cause of all! O glorious Bride!    O God! O Bride of God! O King!    O soul and crown of everything!      Did not I covet to behold   Some endless monarch, that did always live      In palaces of gold,   Willing all kingdoms, realms, and crowns to give      Unto my soul! Whose love      A spring might prove   Of endless glories, honours, friendships, pleasures,   Joys, praises, beauties and celestial treasures!    Lo, now I see there’s such a King,    The fountain-head of everything!      Did my ambition ever dream   Of such a Lord, of such a love! Did I      Expect so sweet a stream   As this at any time! Could any eye      Believe it! Why all power      Is used here;   Joys down from Heaven on my head do shower,   And Jove beyond the fiction doth appear    Once more in golden rain to come    To Danae’s pleasing fruitful womb.      His Ganymede! His life! His joy!   Or He comes down to me, or takes me up      That I might be His boy,   And fill, and taste, and give, and drink the cup,      But those (tho’ great) are all      Too short and small,   Too weak and feeble pictures to express   The true mysterious depths of Blessedness.    I am His image, and His friend,    His son, bride, glory, temple, end.
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