<p>Looke here, and marke (her sickly birds to feed)<lb/> How freely this kinde Pelican doth bleed.<lb/> See, how (when other Salves could not be found)<lb/> To cure their sorrowes, she, her selfe doth wound;<lb/> And, when this holy Emblem, thou shalt see,<lb/> Lift up thy soule to him, who dy'd for thee.<lb/> For, this our Hieroglyphick would expresse<lb/> That Pelican, which in the Wildernesse<lb/> Of this vast World, was left (as all alone)<lb/> Our miserable Nature to bemone;<lb/> And, in whose eyes, the teares of pitty stood,<lb/> When he beheld his owne unthankfull Brood<lb/> His Favours, and his Mercies, then, contemne,<lb/> When with his wings he would have brooded them:<lb/> And, sought their endlesse peace to have confirm'd,<lb/> Though, to procure his ruine, they were arm'd.<lb/> To be their Food, himselfe he freely gave;<lb/> His Heart was pierc'd, that he their Soules might save.<lb/> Because, they disobey'd the Sacred-will,<lb/> He, did the Law of Righteousnesse fulfill;<lb/> And, to that end (though guiltlesse he had bin)<lb/> Was offred, for our Vniversall-sinne.<lb/> Let mee Oh God ! for ever, fixe mine eyes<lb/> Vpon the Merit of that Sacrifize :<lb/> Let me retaine a due commemoration<lb/> Of those deare Mercies, and that bloudy Passion,<lb/> Which here is meant; and, by true Faith, still, feed<lb/> Vpon the drops, this Pelican did bleed;<lb/> Yea, let me firme unto thy Law abide,<lb/> And, ever love that Flocke, for which he dy'd.<lb/> </p>

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Pelican feeding its young with its own blood; in the background Christ on the cross with a pelican on top, blood spouting from his wounds, caught in chalices by a crowd

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<p>Our Pelican, by bleeding, thus,<lb/> Fulfill'd the Law, and cured Vs.</p>

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