CCCXXI. Acting, as seeing him, who is Invisible.

ETERNAL, and Immortal King,
Thy peerless Splendors none can bear,
But Darkness veils Seraphick Eyes,
When GOD with all his Lustre's there.

Yet Faith can pierce the awful Gloom,
The great Invisible can see;
And with its Tremblings mingle Joy
In fix'd Regards, Great GOD, to Thee.

Then ev'ry tempting Form of Sin,
Sham'd in thy Presence, disappears;
And all the glowing raptur'd Soul
The Likeness it contemplates wears.

O Ever-conscious to my Heart,
Witness to its supreme Desire,
Behold it presseth on to Thee,
For it hath caught the heav'nly Fire.

This one Petition would it urge,
To bear Thee ever in its Sight;
In Life, in Death, in Worlds unknown,
Its only Portion and Delight.