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1 I saw Eternity the other night, 2 Like a great ring of pure and endless light, 3 All calm, as it was bright; 4 And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, 5 Driv'n by the spheres 6 Like a vast shadow mov'd; in which the world 7 And all her train were hurl'd. 8 The doting lover in his quaintest strain 9 Did there complain; 10 Near him, his lute, his fancy, and his flights, 11 Wit's sour delights, 12 With gloves, and knots, the silly snares of pleasure, 13 Yet his dear treasure 14 All scatter'd lay, while he his eyes did pour 15 Upon a flow'r. 16 The darksome statesman hung with weights and woe, 17 Like a thick midnight-fog mov'd there so slow, 18 He did not stay, nor go; 19 Condemning thoughts (like sad eclipses) scowl 20 Upon his soul, 21 And clouds of crying witnesses without 22 Pursued him with one shout. 23 Yet digg'd the mole, and lest his ways be found, 24 Work'd under ground, 25 Where he did clutch his prey; but one did see 26 That policy; 27 Churches and altars fed him; perjuries 28 Were gnats and flies; 29 It rain'd about him blood and tears, but he 30 Drank them as free. 31 The fearful miser on a heap of rust 32 Sate pining all his life there, did scarce trust 33 His own hands with the dust, 34 Yet would not place one piece above, but lives 35 In fear of thieves; 36 Thousands there were as frantic as himself, 37 And hugg'd each one his pelf; 38 The downright epicure plac'd heav'n in sense, 39 And scorn'd pretence, 40 While others, slipp'd into a wide excess, 41 Said little less; 42 The weaker sort slight, trivial wares enslave, 43 Who think them brave; 44 And poor despised Truth sate counting by 45 Their victory. 46 Yet some, who all this while did weep and sing, 47 And sing, and weep, soar'd up into the ring; 48 But most would use no wing. 49 O fools (said I) thus to prefer dark night 50 Before true light, 51 To live in grots and caves, and hate the day 52 Because it shews the way, 53 The way, which from this dead and dark abode 54 Leads up to God, 55 A way where you might tread the sun, and be 56 More bright than he. 57 But as I did their madness so discuss 58 One whisper'd thus, 59 "This ring the Bridegroom did for none provide, 60 But for his bride."
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