Date: 1685
One's thoughts and joys may be "all pack'd up and gone"
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Date: 1685
The Lord may "bear my Name upon [his] Breast, / Engrave it on [his] Heart"
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Date: 1685
One may bear God's "Image and Inscription" upon his heart
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Date: 1685
"O Seal mine Image on thy Heart, / O Seal it on thy Arm"
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Date: 1685
"One would have thought such melting Words / Should break an Heart of Steel."
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Date: 1685
A "heaven-born mind" may have "no dross to purge from [its] rich ore"
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Date: 1685
"Nor can thy soul a fairer mansion find, / Than was the beauteous frame she left behind"
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Date: 1685
"These bugbears of the mind, this inward hell, / No rays of outward sunshine can dispel; / But nature and right reason must display / Their beams abroad, and bring the darksome soul to day."
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Date: 1685
"The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, / Lets in new light by chinks that time hath made: / Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become, / As they draw near to their eternal home"
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Date: 1685
"Sure there's a lethargy in mighty woe, / Tears stand congealed, and cannot flow; / And the sad soul retires into her inmost room"
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