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"Holy writing must strive (by all means) for perfection and true holiness, that a door may be opened to him in heaven."
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Henry VaughanI will on thee as on a comet look, — Henry Vaughan
"I will on thee as on a comet look, A comet, the sad worlds ill-boding book; Thy light as luctual and staind with woes Ill judge, where penal flames sit mixt and close. But though some think thou shinst but to restrain Bold storms, and simply dost attend on rain; Yet I know well, and so our sins require, Thou dost but court cold rain, till rain turns fire."
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Henry Vaughan
Henry Vaughan
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Henry Vaughan was a Welsh metaphysical poet, author and translator writing in English, and a medical physician. His religious poetry appeared in Silex Scintillans in 1650, with a second part in 1655. In 1646 his Poems, with the Tenth Satire of Juvenal Englished was published. Meanwhile he had been persuaded by reading the religious poet George Herbert to renounce "idle verse". The prose Mount of O
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"As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing."
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"Dear Night! this worlds defeat; The stop to busy fools; cares check and curb; The day of spirits; my souls calm retreat Which none disturb! Christs progress, and His prayer-time; The hours to which high Heaven doth chime."
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"There is in God — some say — A deep, but dazzling darkness; as men here Say it is late and dusky, because they See not all clear. O for that Night! where I in Him Might live invisible and dim!"
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"Happy those early days, when I Shined in my angel-infancy! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race."
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"Tempests and windes and winter-nights Vex not, that but One sees thee grow, That One made all these lesser lights. If those bright joys He singly sheds On thee, were all met in one crown, Both sun and stars would hide their heads ; And moons, though full, would get them down."
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