The Church.
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They ask enough; why shouldst thou further go?
Raise not the mudde
Of future depths, but drink the cleare and good.
Dig not for wo
In times to come; for it will grow.
Raise not the mudde
Of future depths, but drink the cleare and good.
Dig not for wo
In times to come; for it will grow.
Man the present fit: if he provide,
He breaks the square.
This houre is mine: if for the next I care,
I grow too wide,
And do encroach upon deaths side.
He breaks the square.
This houre is mine: if for the next I care,
I grow too wide,
And do encroach upon deaths side.
For death each hour environs and surrounds.
He that would know
And care for future chances, cannot go
Unto those grounds,
But through a Churchyard which thē bounds.
He that would know
And care for future chances, cannot go
Unto those grounds,
But through a Churchyard which thē bounds.
Things present shrink and die: but they that spend
Their thoughts and sense
On future grief, do not remove it thence,
But it extend,
And draw the bottome out an end.
Their thoughts and sense
On future grief, do not remove it thence,
But it extend,
And draw the bottome out an end.
God chains the dog till night: wilt loose the chain,
And wake thy sorrow?
Wilt thou forestall it, and now grieve to morrow,
And then again
Grieve over freshly all thy pain?
And wake thy sorrow?
Wilt thou forestall it, and now grieve to morrow,
And then again
Grieve over freshly all thy pain?
Either grief will not come: or if it must,
Do not forecast:
And while it cometh, it is almost past.
Away distrust:
My God hath promis’d; he is just.
Do not forecast:
And while it cometh, it is almost past.
Away distrust:
My God hath promis’d; he is just.
§ Praise.
