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| As by the selfe-fixt pole wee never doe [18] |
| Direct our course, but the next starr thereto |
| Wch shewes where th'other is, and wch, we say, |
| (Because it strayes not far) doth never stray: |
| So God by his Church, neerest to him, we knowe |
| And stand firme, if wee by her motion goe. |
| His Spirit, as his fyery pillar, doth |
| Leade, and his Church, as cloude, to one end both. |
| This Church by letting these feast ioyne, hath showne |
| Death and Conception in mankind ar one |
| Or that in him t'was one humility |
| That hee would bee a man and leaue to bee |
| Or, as Creation has had made, as God |
| With his last Iudgemt. but one period |
| His imitating Spouse would ioyne in one |
| Manhoods extreams, hee shall come, hee is gon. |
| Or as though one bloud drop wch. thence did fall |
| Accepted, would haue servd, hee yet shedd all: |
| So though the least of his paynes deeds or words |
| Would buy a life shee all this day affoords. |
| This Treasure then in grosse (my Soule) vplay |
| And in thy* life retayle it every day. |
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| [Transcriptions are not provided for noncanonical poems, elegies on Donne by other authors, or prose compositions.] [18-20] |