They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.
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Dear Night this world's defeat The stop to busy fools care's check and curb The day of spirits my soul's calm retreat Which none disturb Christ's progress, and His prayer-time The hours to which high Heaven cloth chime.Henry Vaughan
And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep.
Henry Vaughan
I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled.
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Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God order'd motion, but ordain'd no rest.
Henry Vaughan
Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch; At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch; Till the white-wing'd reapers come.
Henry Vaughan
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