HENRY VAUGHAN
O fools (said I,) thus to prefer dark night
Before true light, To live in grots, and caves, and hate the day
Because it shews the way, The way which from this dead and dark abode
Leads up to God, A way where you might tread the Sun, and be
More bright than he. But as I did their madness so discuss
One whisper'd thus, This Ring the Bride- groome did for none 'provide
But for his bride.
��JOHN BUNYAN 37<? The Shepherd Boy sings in the
Valley of Humiliation
that is down needs fear no fall, He that is low, no pride; He that is humble ever shall Have God to be his guide.
��I am content with what I have,
Little be it or much. And, Lord, contentment still I cra, T e,
Because Thou savest such.
Fullness to such a burden is That go on pilgrimage:
Here little, and hereafter bliss,
Is best from age to age.
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