An Anniversary On the Hymeneals of my noble Kinsman Tho. Stanley Esquire.

THe day is curl'd about agen
To view the splendor she was in;
When first with hallow'd hands
The holy man knit the mysterious bands;
When you two your contracted Souls did move,
Like Cherubim… above,
And did make Love;
As your un-understanding issue now
In a glad sigh, a smile, a …ear, a Vow.

Tell me, O self-reviving Sun,
In thy Perigrination!
Hast thou beheld a pair
Twist their soft beams like these in their chast air;
As from bright numberlesse imbracing rayes
Are sprung th' industrious dayes;
So when they gaze,
And change their fertile Eyes with the new morn,
A beauteous Offspring is shot forth, not born.

Be witness then, all-seeing Sun,
Old Spy, thou that thy race ha… run,
In full five thousand Rings;
To thee were ever pu…er Offerings
Sent on the Wings of Faith, and thou of Night
Curtain of their delight,
By these made bright,
Have you not marked their Coeles…ial play,
And no more peek'd the gayeties of day.

Come then pale Virgins, Roses strow,
Mingled with Io's as you go;
The snowy Oxe is kill'd,
The Fane with pros'lite Lads and Lasses fill'd,
You too may hope the same seraphick joy,
Old time cannot destroy,
Nor fulnesse cloy,
When like these, you shall stamp by Sympathies,
Thousands of new-born-loves with your chast eyes.