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An Address to the Soul Occasioned by a Rain God's Determinations: Preface God's Determinations: The Joy of Church Fellowship Rightly Attended Huswifery Preparatory Meditations; I. What love is this of thing

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Once at thy Feast, I saw thee Pearle-like stand
'Tween Heaven and Earth, where Heavens Bright glory all
In streams fell on thee, as a floodgate and
Like Sun Beams through thee on the World to Fall.
Oh! Sugar sweet then! My Deare sweet Lord, I see
Saints Heaven-lost Happiness restor'd by thee.

Edward Taylor

Edward Taylor (1645–1729), U.S. poet. Preparatory Meditations; IV. Lord, art thou at the table head above (l. 25–30). . .

Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.

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