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For in Christ's coach saints sweetly sing As they to glory ride therein.

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Make me, O Lord, thy spinning-wheel complete.

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Who laced and filleted the earth so fine
With rivers like green ribbons smaragdine?
Who made the seas its selvage, and its locks
Like a quilt ball within a silver box?
Who spread its canopy? Or curtains spun?
Who in this bowling alley bowled the sun?


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This bread of life dropped in thy mouth doth cry: Eat, eat me, soul, and thou shalt never die.

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Thou sorrow, venom Elfe.
Is this thy play,
To spin a web out of thyselfe
To Catch a Fly?
For Why?
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To tangle Adams race
In's stratigems
To their Destructions, spoil'd, made base
By venom things
Damn'd Sins.


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My case is bad. Lord, be my advocate.
My sin is red: I'm under God's arrest.


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Is Christ thy advocate to plead thy cause?
Art thou his client? Such shall never slide.
He never lost his case.


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It's food too fine for angels; yet come, take And eat thy fill! It's Heaven's sugar cake.

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Am I new minted by thy Stamp indeed?
Mine Eyes are dim; I cannot clearly see.
Be thou my Spectacles that I may read
Thine Image and Inscription stampt on mee.


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Edward Taylor

Edward Taylor

Born: 1642
Died: June 29, 1729 (aged 87)
Bio: Edward Taylor was a colonial American poet, pastor and physician.
Known for:
  1. The Poems of Edward Taylor
  2. Essentials of Development Economics
  3. The poetical works of Edward Taylor
  4. Essentials of Econometrics

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