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I SEEK to move thee to my mind:
But in so doing, this I find; -
That 'tis not I who give to thee
The fond emotion I would see;
But thine immobility,
That moves me rather, more to thee.
Strange! that the coldness of thine heart,
Should thus to mine more warmth impart;
Draw me, who would the drawer be!
The more thou dost my pray'r deny,
Alas! the more I burh and sigh,
Lamenting Love's perversity.
Adtrahens, abstrahor.
The puller is pulled.
LIFE'S high-rais'd landmark is the firm set rock,
Emblem of HIM who moveth all aroumd,
Himself quiescent, yet who gives the shock
Of Life and Motion which throughout abound.
Man, whose weak hand, and as it suits his will,
Would pull to hum that rock, shall strive in vain,
And learn therein, his Destiny is still
Thereto but to be drawn, howe'er he strain.
Sure guide to those who unreluctant hale
Their back thereon-their toil shall best avail;
And those who doubt, shall find it still prevail.
Si nunquàm Danaën habuisset ahenea turris,
Non esset Danaë de Jove facta parens.-OVID, Amor. Eleg.19.
Saepè ego cùm possem facilem exorare puellam,
Difficilis mentem coepit habere meam.
Quod movet, quiescit!
That which moves, is at rest!
GOD the Immoveable Rock, moves all. -Psalm xvii.
EVERY good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the
Father of Lights, with whom is no variableness neither shadow of turning. -James i.17.
Omne motum non in moto movetur, sed in quiescente, et id qud movet, quiescit.
HERM. Paemand. cap. xi.
IMMUTABLE, yet changing all
On high, around, below;
Immoveable, yet moving all
The way that all should go: --
Fount of all Life and Light,
All Good, all Love, a Grace;
Encompassing with thought and sight,
Eternity and space:-
All peace, all sweet repose and rest,
Yet ever moving still
Earth, Sea, and Sky, as he knows best,
His purpose to fulfil:-
Changeless, where endless change we see,
Unmov'd-the Mover moves
All else in changeful harmony,
And though unmov'd-HE LOVES.
WHAT is God? The Soul of the world. What is God? All that we see, and
that we do not see. The grandeur of God is infinite; alone He is all; for He
wills and directs His work.-SENECA.
AN Eternal God moves this mortal world; an Incorruptible Spirit breathes life into
our frail organs - CICERO.
We cannot understand God other than as a simple, free Being, divested of all
perishable admixture: knowing all things, impressing motion upon all, and enjoying in
and of Himself an eternal activity.
How do the Heavens speak to us? In what language doth it instruct us? The
seasons run their course; all is reborn, all things are renewed. It is with this eloquent
silence that they discourse to us the great Secret Principle by which all is moved.-
CONFUCIUS.
Mon Dieu conduisse moy par la voie ordonnée,
Je suivray volontiers, de peur qu'un fort lien
Ne m'entraine mechant, où en hommme de bien
Je pourrois arriver, suivant la destinée.
The Prayer of Epictetus. LE SIEUR DU VAIR. (Manuel d'Epict.)
MY light from whence it came, mounts still on high
Unto the source of light that's never dry.
Like as the Rivers to the Ocean runne,
From whence their secret fountaines, first begun;
Like as the stone doth to the center sway;
So to the Spheres my light still makes his way.
No joyes, delights, and greatest weights of gold,
Nor pampering pleasure fast our soule can hold.
The panting soule rests not, untill it see
His maker God, a Tri-une Deitie.
FARLIE'S Emblems.
WHILE WE DRAW, WE ARE DRAWN
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