316. Wherein He Invokes the Aid of Love to Sing Her Worthily -
WHEREIN HE INVOKES THE AID OF LOVE TO SING HER WORTHILY
Ah Love, assist my faint and foolish brain!
Pillar the style, sustain the lyric portal!
Help me to sing of her who is immortal,
A citizen of the celestial reign!
Permit, Lord, that my verses may attain
The reach of her proud praise (presumptuous mortal!)
Whose passing our poor world must now deplore till
The Golden Trumpet give her back again.
Love answers: " In myself and Heaven the best,
By converse pure and precept sage and holy,
All in her breathed of whom Death stands possessed.
Since that first dawn when Adam stared so slowly,
Her equal scorns this Vale of Melancholy —
Write down with tears what chokes my labouring breast. "
Ah Love, assist my faint and foolish brain!
Pillar the style, sustain the lyric portal!
Help me to sing of her who is immortal,
A citizen of the celestial reign!
Permit, Lord, that my verses may attain
The reach of her proud praise (presumptuous mortal!)
Whose passing our poor world must now deplore till
The Golden Trumpet give her back again.
Love answers: " In myself and Heaven the best,
By converse pure and precept sage and holy,
All in her breathed of whom Death stands possessed.
Since that first dawn when Adam stared so slowly,
Her equal scorns this Vale of Melancholy —
Write down with tears what chokes my labouring breast. "
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