He is and near:

And with His aureole
The tresses of my soul

Are blent
In wished content.

Yes, this too gentle Lover
Hath flattering words to move her

To pride
By His sweet side.

Ah, Love! somewhat let be!
Lest my humility

Grow weak
When thou dost speak!

Rebate thy tender suit,
Lest to herself impute

Some worth
Thy bride of earth!

A maid too easily
Conceits herself to be

Those things
Her lover sings;

And being straitly wooed,
Believes herself the Good

And Fair
He seeks in her.

Turn something of Thy look,
And fear me with rebuke,

That I
May timorously

Take tremors in Thy arms,
And with contriv-ed charms

Allure
A love unsure.

Not to me, not to me,
Builded so flawfully,

O God,
Thy humbling laud!

Not to this man, but Man,--
Universe in a span;

Point
Of the spheres conjoint;

In whom eternally
Thou, Light, dost focus Thee!--

Didst pave
The way o' the wave;

Rivet with stars the Heaven,
For causeways to Thy driven

Car
In its coming far

Unto him, only him;
In Thy deific whim

Didst bound
Thy works' great round

In this small ring of flesh;
The sky's gold-knotted mesh

Thy wrist
Did only twist

To take him in that net.--
Man! swinging-wicket set

Between
The Unseen and Seen;

Lo, God's two worlds immense,
Of spirit and of sense,

Wed
In this narrow bed;

Yea, and the midge's hymn
Answers the seraphim

Athwart
Thy body's court!

Great arm-fellow of God!
To the ancestral clod

Kin,
And to cherubin;

Bread predilectedly
O' the worm and Deity!

Hark,
O God's clay-sealed Ark,

To praise that fits thee, clear
To the ear within the ear,

But dense
To clay-sealed sense.

All the Omnific made
When in a word he said,

(Mystery!)
He uttered THEE;

Thee His great utterance bore,
O secret metaphor

Of what
Thou dream'st no jot!

Cosmic metonymy!
Weak world-unshuttering key!

One
Seal of Solomon!

Trope that itself not scans
Its huge significance,

Which tries
Cherubic eyes.

Primer where the angels all
God's grammar spell in small,

Nor spell
The highest too well.

Point for the great descants
Of starry disputants;

Equation
Of creation.

Thou meaning, couldst thou see,
Of all which dafteth thee;

So plain,
It mocks thy pain;

Stone of the Law indeed,
Thine own self couldst thou read;

Thy bliss
Within thee is.

Compost of Heaven and mire,
Slow foot and swift desire!

Lo,
To have Yes, choose No;

Gird, and thou shalt unbind;
Seek not, and thou shalt find;

To eat,
Deny thy meat;

And thou shalt be fulfilled
With all sweet things unwilled:

So best
God loves to jest

With children small--a freak
Of heavenly hide-and-seek

Fit
For thy wayward wit,

Who art thyself a thing
Of whim and wavering;

Free
When His wings pen thee;

Sole fully blest, to feel
God whistle thee at heel;

Drunk up
As a dew-drop,

When He bends down, sun-wise,
Intemperable eyes;

Most proud,
When utterly bowed.

To feel thyself and be
His dear nonentity--

Caught
Beyond human thought

In the thunder-spout of Him,
Until thy being dim,

And be
Dead deathlessly.

Stoop, stoop; for thou dost fear
The nettle's wrathful spear,

So slight
Art thou of might!

Rise; for Heaven hath no frown
When thou to thee pluck'st down,

Strong clod!
The neck of God.

ASSUMPTA MARIA.
'Thou needst not sing new songs, but say the old.'--COWLEY.

Mortals, that behold a Woman,
Rising 'twixt the Moon and Sun;

Who am I the heavens assume? an
All am I, and I am one.

Multitudinous ascend I,
Dreadful as a battle arrayed,

For I bear you whither tend I;
Ye are I: be undismayed!

I, the Ark that for the graven
Tables of the Law was made;

Man's own heart was one, one Heaven,
Both within my womb were laid.

For there Anteros with Eros
Heaven with man conjoin-ed was,--

Twin-stone of the Law, Ischyros,
Agios Athanatos.

I, the flesh-girt Paradises
Gardenered by the Adam new,

Daintied o'er with sweet devices
Which He loveth, for He grew.

I, the boundlessstrict savannah
Which God's leaping feet go through;

I, the heaven whence the Manna,
Weary Israel, slid on you!

He the Anteros and Eros,
I the body, He the Cross;

He upbeareth me, Ischyros,
Agios Athanatos!

I am Daniel's mystic Mountain,
Whence the mighty stone was rolled;

I am the four Rivers' fountain,
Watering Paradise of old;

Cloud down-raining the Just One am,
Danae of the Shower of Gold;

I the Hostel of the Sun am;
He the Lamb, and I the Fold.

He the Anteros and Eros,
I the body, He the Cross;

He is fast to me, Ischyros,
Agios Athanatos!

I, the presence-hall where Angels
Do enwheel their plac-ed King--

• couldst [kudst] can的第二人称单数 (初中英语单词)
• whistle [´wisəl] v.吹哨 n.口哨；汽笛 (初中英语单词)
• ascend [ə´send] v.登；上升；追溯 (初中英语单词)
• paradise [´pærədais] n.天堂；乐园 (初中英语单词)
• shower [´ʃauə] n.展出者；阵雨；淋浴 (初中英语单词)
• flattering [´flætəriŋ] a.谄媚的；奉承的 (高中英语单词)
• unseen [,ʌn´si:n] a.未看见的 (高中英语单词)
• heavenly [´hevənli] a.天的，天空的 (高中英语单词)
• strict [strikt] a.严厉的；精确的 (高中英语单词)
• israel [´izreiəl] n.以色列 (高中英语单词)
• mighty [´maiti] a.强有力的 ad.很 (高中英语单词)
• ancestral [æn´sestrəl] a.祖先的；祖传的 (英语四级单词)
• utterance [´ʌtərəns] n.发音；言辞；所说的话 (英语四级单词)
• starry [´stɑ:ri] a.星光照耀的，闪亮的 (英语四级单词)
• boundless [´baundlis] a.无边无际的 (英语四级单词)
• whence [wens] ad.从何处；从那里 (英语四级单词)
• wayward [´weiwəd] a.任性的；不易控制的 (英语六级单词)
• mystic [´mistik] a.神秘的；难以理解的 (英语六级单词)