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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Dedication
- General Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Poems from the Dobell Folio
- Poems of Felicity
- The Ceremonial Law
- Poems from the Early Notebook
- Textual Emendations and Notes
- Manuscript Foliation of Poems
- Glossary
- Index of Titles and First Lines
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Dedication
- General Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Poems from the Dobell Folio
- Poems of Felicity
- The Ceremonial Law
- Poems from the Early Notebook
- Textual Emendations and Notes
- Manuscript Foliation of Poems
- Glossary
- Index of Titles and First Lines
Summary
The Introduction
Two thousand yeers before my Savior came,
In Hieroglyphick Laws I see His Name.
My GOD prepard, before my self was born,
Great Joys wher with I might my Life adorn.
He first ordaind that I a Life should liv
Of Sweet Delights; which His fair Hand did giv;
From whence since I by Sin revolted am,
He since ordaind His son to be a Man.
Whom that I might more certainly descrie,
With ancient Figures He did Beautifie:
And made those Types the pleasant Posies be
Of His great Lov, and Kindness unto me.
Wher in I might with Joy and Sacred Pleasure,
His Goodness read, and see my Glorious Treasure.
Would it not Ravish one that he should com
To such Delights even from a Beggars Womb!
That from a hous where nothing could be seen,
He should be raisd to such a vast Esteem?
In Lands remote I see my self made High,
And wonder at the State which there I spie.
My Soveraign LORD, I in a long Design,
See ruling Kingdoms by His Might Divine,
And Things Disposing, that my Soul might be
So long before Enricht with Majestie.
Being made by Ways that Wisely do conspire,
Prevent, fulfill, exceed my whole Desire;
A Princelike Heir of glorious Works, that pleas
My Soul, far more then Kingly Palaces.
I there behold a Tabernacle reard,
Wher in my GOD Him self for me appeard:
That He should com and in the World be seen,
That He should Woo, and treat His Heavenly Queen
On Earth, that She His GLORY here might see,
And be Espoused to the DEITY;
It is a Signe, we Equal objects are
Even with the Angels of His Lov and Care:
If not far more. For GOD with Men doth talk
In Wildernesses, and with Sinners Walk.
That I should see my Self with fleshly Eys,
Concernd in such a World of Mysteries;
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- The Works of Thomas Traherne VIPoems from the 'Dobell Folio', Poems of Felicity, The Ceremonial Law, Poems from the 'Early Notebook', pp. 195 - 242Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2014