Friendship in Emblem, or the Seal, to My Dearest Lucasia
1
The hearts thus intermixed speak
A Love that no bold shock can break
For Joyn'd and growing, both in one
Neither can be disturbd alone.
2
That meanes a mutuall knowledge too,
For what is't either a heart can doe,
Which by its panting centinell
It does not to the other tell?
3
That friendship hearts so much refines,
It nothing but it self design's
The hearts are free from lower ends,
For each point to the other tends,
4
They flame, 'tis true, and severall ways
But still those flames doe so much raise
That while to either they incline
They yet are noble, and divine.
5
From smoak or hurt those flames are free
From grosseness or mortallity
The hearts (like Moses bush presum'd):
Warm'd and enlighten'd not consum'd.
6
The compasses that stand above
Express this great imortall Love
For friends like them can prove this true,
They are, and yet they are not two.
7
And in their posture is express'd
Friendships exalted interest
Each follows where the other Lean's,
And what each doe's, the other meane's.
8
And as when one foot doe's stand fast,
And t'other circles seeks to cast,
The steady part doe's regulate
And make the wanderer's motion streight
9
So friends are onely Two in this,
T'reclaime each other when they misse
For whose're will grossely fall,
Can never be a friend at all.
10
And as that usefull instrument
For even lines was ever meant
So friendship from good-angells spring's
To teach the world heroique things.
11
As these are found out in design
To rule and measure every line
So friendship govern's actions best,
Prescribing Law to all the rest.
12
And as in nature nothing's set
So Just, as lines, and numbers mett
So compasses for these being made
Doe friendship's harmony perswade.
13
And like to them, so friends may own
Extension, not division.
Their points like bodys separate;
But head like soules know's no such fate.
14
And as each part so well is knitt
That their embraces ever fitt,
So friends are such by destiny,
And no Third can the place supply.
15
There needs no motto to the Seale
But that we may the Mine reveale
To the dull ey, it was thought fit
That friendship, onely should be writt.
16
But as there is degrees of bliss
So there's no friendship meant by this,
But such as will transmit to fame
Lucasia's and Orinda's name.
The hearts thus intermixed speak
A Love that no bold shock can break
For Joyn'd and growing, both in one
Neither can be disturbd alone.
2
That meanes a mutuall knowledge too,
For what is't either a heart can doe,
Which by its panting centinell
It does not to the other tell?
3
That friendship hearts so much refines,
It nothing but it self design's
The hearts are free from lower ends,
For each point to the other tends,
4
They flame, 'tis true, and severall ways
But still those flames doe so much raise
That while to either they incline
They yet are noble, and divine.
5
From smoak or hurt those flames are free
From grosseness or mortallity
The hearts (like Moses bush presum'd):
Warm'd and enlighten'd not consum'd.
6
The compasses that stand above
Express this great imortall Love
For friends like them can prove this true,
They are, and yet they are not two.
7
And in their posture is express'd
Friendships exalted interest
Each follows where the other Lean's,
And what each doe's, the other meane's.
8
And as when one foot doe's stand fast,
And t'other circles seeks to cast,
The steady part doe's regulate
And make the wanderer's motion streight
9
So friends are onely Two in this,
T'reclaime each other when they misse
For whose're will grossely fall,
Can never be a friend at all.
10
And as that usefull instrument
For even lines was ever meant
So friendship from good-angells spring's
To teach the world heroique things.
11
As these are found out in design
To rule and measure every line
So friendship govern's actions best,
Prescribing Law to all the rest.
12
And as in nature nothing's set
So Just, as lines, and numbers mett
So compasses for these being made
Doe friendship's harmony perswade.
13
And like to them, so friends may own
Extension, not division.
Their points like bodys separate;
But head like soules know's no such fate.
14
And as each part so well is knitt
That their embraces ever fitt,
So friends are such by destiny,
And no Third can the place supply.
15
There needs no motto to the Seale
But that we may the Mine reveale
To the dull ey, it was thought fit
That friendship, onely should be writt.
16
But as there is degrees of bliss
So there's no friendship meant by this,
But such as will transmit to fame
Lucasia's and Orinda's name.
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