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Thomas Traherne - An Hymn upon St. Bartholomew`
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What powerful Spirit lives within!  
  What active Angel doth inhabit here!  
  What heavenly light inspires my skin,  
Which doth so like a Deity appear!  
A living Temple of all ages, I       
      Within me see  
    A Temple of Eternity!  
      All Kingdoms I descry  
        In me.  
  
    An inward Omnipresence here
Mysteriously like His within me stands,  
  Whose knowledge is a Sacred Sphere  
That in itself at once includes all lands.  
There is some Angel that within me can  
      Both talk and move, 
    And walk and fly and see and love,  
      A man on earth, a man  
        Above.  
  
    Dull walls of clay my Spirit leaves,  
And in a foreign Kingdom doth appear,  
  This great Apostle it receives,  
Admires His works and sees them, standing here,  
Within myself from East to West I move  
      As if I were  
    At once a Cherubim and Sphere, 
      Or was at once above  
        And here.  
  
    The Soul’s a messenger whereby  
Within our inward Temple we may be  
  Even like the very Deity 
In all the parts of His Eternity.  
O live within and leave unwieldy dross!  
      Flesh is but clay!  
    O fly my Soul and haste away  
      To Jesus’ Throne or Cross! 
        Obey!
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