Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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39. The Knot |
By Henry Vaughan (16211695) |
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BRIGHT Queen of Heaven! Gods Virgin Spouse | |
The glad worlds blessed maid! | |
Whose beauty tyed life to thy house, | |
And brought us saving ayd. | |
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Thou art the true Loves-knot; by thee | 5 |
God is made our Allie, | |
And mans inferior Essence he | |
With his did dignifie. | |
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For Coalescent by that Band | |
We are his body grown, | 10 |
Nourished with favors from his hand | |
Whom for our head we own. | |
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And such a Knot, what arm dares loose, | |
What life, what death can sever? | |
Which us in him, and him in us | 15 |
United keeps for ever. | |
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