Vpon the two great Feasts of the Annunciation and Resurrection falling on the same day, March 25. 1627

Thrice happy day, which sweetly do'st combine
Two Hemispheres in th'Equinoctiall line:
The one debasing God to earthly paine,
The other raising man to endlesse raigne.
Christs humble steps declining to the wombe,
Touch heau'nly scales erected on his Tombe:
We first with Gabriel must this Prince conuay
Into his chamber on the marriage day,
Then with the other Angels cloth'd in white,
We will adore him in this conqu'ring Night:
The Sonue of God assuming humane breath,
Becomes a subiect to his vassall Death,
That Graues and Hell laid open by his strife,
May giue vs passage to a better life.
See for this worke how things are newly styl'd,
Man is declar'd, Almighty, God, a Child;
The Word made Flesh, is speechlesse, and the Light
Begins from Clouds, and sets in depth of night;
Behold the Sunne eclips'd for many yeeres,
And eu'ry day more dusky robes he weares,
Till after totall darkenesse shining faire,
No Moone shall barre his splendor from the Aire.
Let faithfull soules this double Feast attend
In two Processions: let the first descend
The Temples staires, and with a downe-cast eye
Vpon the lowest pauement prostrate lie,
In creeping Violets, white Lillies shine
Their humble thoughts, and eu'ry pure designe;
The other troope shall climbe with sacred heate,
The rich degrees of Salomons bright seate,
In glowing Roses feruent zeale they beare,
And in the Azure Flowre delis appeare
Celestiall contemplations, which aspire
Aboue the skie, vp to th'immortall Quire.