REGENERATION I A WARD, and still in bonds, one day It was high-spring, and all the way Blasted my infant buds, and sinne II Storm'd thus; I straight perceiv'd my spring Measures the melancholy skye Then drops, and rains for griefe, III So sigh'd I upwards still, at last I reach'd the pinacle, where plac'd I tooke them up and lay'd In th'one late paines, The other smoake, and pleasures weigh'd IV With that, some cryed, Away; straight I Full East, a faire, fresh field could spy: Where (since he stept there,) only go V Here, I repos'd; but scarse well set, Of stately height, whose branches met I entred, and once in Found all was chang'd, and a new spring VI The unthrift Sunne shot vitall gold And heaven its azure did unfold A garland wore; Thus fed my Eyes VII Only a little Fountain lent And on the dumbe shades language spent I drew her neere, and found Of divers stones, some bright, and round VIII The first (pray marke), as quick as light But, th❜last more heavy then the night My restless Eye that still desir'd IX It was a banke of flowers, where I descried (Though 'twas mid-day.) Some fast asleepe, others broad-eyed Here musing long, I heard A rushing wind Which still increas'd, but whence it stirr'd No where I could not find; X I turn'd me round, and to each shade To see, if any leafe had made By knowing, where 'twas, or where not, Lord, then said I, On me one breath, Cant. Cap. v. ver. 17 Arise O North, and come thou South-wind, and blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. HENRY VAUGHAN. EVENING QUATRAINS I THE Day's grown old, the fainting Sun And yet his Steeds, with all his skill, II With Labour spent, and Thirst opprest, III The Shadows now so long do grow, That Brambles like tall Cedars show, IV A very little little Flock Shades thrice the ground that it would stock; Whilst the small Stripling following them, Appears a mighty Polypheme. V These being brought into the Fold, VI Now lowing Herds are each-where heard, The Cart's on Tayl set down to rest, VII The hedg is stript, the Clothes brought in, |