| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | Song: ‘Come, come, thou glorious object of my sight’ | | By William Killigrew (1606–1695) |
| | | COME, 1 come, thou glorious object of my sight, | |
| O my joy, my life, my own delight! | |
| May this glad minute be | |
| Blessed to eternity! | |
| See how the glimmering tapers of the sky | 5 |
| Do gaze, and wonder at our constancy, | |
| How they crowd to behold | |
| What our arms do unfold! | |
| How do all envy our felicities, | |
| And grudge the triumphs of Selindra’s eyes! | 10 |
| How Cynthia seeks to shroud | |
| Her crescent in yon cloud! | |
| Where sad night puts her sable mantle on, | |
| Thy light mistaking, hasteth to be gone, | |
| Her gloomy shades give way, | 15 |
| As at the approach of day; | |
| And all the planets shrink, in doubt to be | |
| Eclipsèd by a brighter deity. | |
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| Look, O Look! | |
| How the small | 20 |
| Lights do fall, | |
| And adore | |
| What before | |
| The heavens have not shown, | |
| Nor their godheads known! | 25 |
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| Such a faith, | |
| Such a love | |
| As may move | |
| From above | |
| To descend, and remain | 30 |
| Amongst mortals again. | |
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