Love
Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 56
From Wittes Pilgrimage (1605)
IF Sunne-Beames spring, by kinde, from Heaun'ly Ground,
If Voice, diuining Eares, from Angells comes,
If breath that yeelds as sweete a Sent, as Sound
Celestiall bee, and Sence, with ioy, ore'comes:
Then, Face, and Voice, and Breath of my sweet Saint
Are most Celestiall: and, if so they bee,
The Spirit of Science did this Picture paint
By Coppy of his owne Diuinity!
If so, she is most mercifull, and iust:
Sith Hee, in both is most, most infinite;
Which makes vs feare, and yet, in Him, to trust;
And so shee doth, in Wisdome exquisite:
Which oft, in Iustice, humbles daring Men
And then, in Mercy, liftes them vp agen.
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Hereford, John Davies of. “Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 56.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/davies_jh/166/.
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Hereford, John Davies of. “Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 56.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/davies_jh/166/.
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