S: AUGUST. Thou knowest not what time he will come : wait always, that because thou knowest not the time of his coming, thou mayest be prepared against the time he cometh. And for this, perehance, thou knowest not the time, be cause thou mayest be prepared against all times. EPIG. 6. Expect, but fear not death: death cannot kill, JOB JOB Xviii. 6. His light shall be dark, and his candle shall be put out. 1. HAT ails our taper is her lustre fled, WH Or foil'd? What dire disaster bred This change, that thus she veils her golden head? 2. It was but very now she shin'd as fair As Venus' star; her glory might compare 3. There was no cave-begotten damp that mought 4. Lift up thy wond'ring thoughts, and thou shalt spy 5. Canst thou behold bright Phoebus, and thy sight 6. Great God, I am thy taper, thou my sun; If thour withdraw thy light, my light will shine: 8. Thy sun beams are too strong for my weak eye 9. If intervening earth should make a night, My wanton flame would then shine forth too bright; My earth would ev'n presume t' eclipse thy light. 10. And if thy light be shadow'd, and mine fade, 11. What shall I do? O what shall I desire? 12. In what a strait, in what a strait am I ! Twixt two extremes, how my rack'd fortunes lie? 13. O let the steams of my Redeemer's blood, 14. Lord, what am I! or what's the light I have! 15. O make my light, that all the world may see O light |