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BEHOLD the wond'rous sympathy between
The strings of yonder lute, and this I play!
Is it not just as though some hand unseen
Swept the same chords, and tun'd the self-same lay?*
*The cause of this phenomenon is assigned by Cardanum in his 8th book De Subtilit. Du Pleix,
in his Corps de Philosophie, 1626, accounts for it also in nearly similar terms.
So lov'd one-though untouch'd by thee, I feel,
Sense of thy touch through all my being steal;
Hear thy lov'd voice though silent thou may'st be,
See thy lov'd form though far away from me,
And all the radiance of thy Beauty's light,
Undimm'd to me by distance, shine no less
To me effulgent in my dream of night,
As doth by day its light of loveliness.
VETUS verbum est, similitudinem amoris auctorem esse. -PLATO, lib, 6, De leg.
Experientiâ notum est arcanam quandam et occultam inter homines esse natu-
rarum affinitatem aut odium, vel naturae quâdem occultâ vi, vel astrorum influentiâ,
vel, Ec.!!!!!!! Undè fit ut aliquis ab altero toto pectore abhorreat, in alterum verò pro-
pensus sit, nec rogatus causum dicere posset cur hunc amet, illum oderit, juxtà illud
Catulli,
Non amo te, Volusi, nec possum dicere quare,
Hoc tantùm possum dicere, non amo te.-
CYPR. Tract. de Spons. cap. 7.
QUID non cernit Amor! quid non vestigat Amator!-BEROALD.
LOVE looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind;
Nor hath Love's mind of any judgement taste,
Wings and no eyes, figure unheedy haste;
And therefore is Love said to be a child,
Because in choice he often is beguil'd.-SHAKESPEARE.
THINGS base and vile, holding no quality,
Love can transpose to form and dignity.-Ibid.
AH! I remember,-and how can I
But ever more remember well, -when first
Our flame began; when scarce we knew what t'was,
The flame we felt; when as we sat and sigh'd,
And looked upon each other and conceived
Not what we ail'd, yet something we did ail;
And yet were well, and yet we were not well:
And what was our disease we could not tell.-Old poet.
-LOVE refines
The thoughts and heart enlarges: hath its seat
In reason, and is judicious: is the scale
By which to Heavenly love thou mayest ascent;-
Not sunk in carnal pleasure: for which cause
Among the beasts no mate for Love was found.-MILTON.
OH! there are looks and tones that dart
An instant sunshine through the heartl
As if the soul that minute caught
Some treasure if through life had sought;
As if the very lips and eyes
Predestin'd to have all our sighs,
And never be forgot again, -
Sparkled and spoke before us then. -MOORE.
WHY should I blush to own I love?
'Tis love that rules the realms above!
Why should I blush to say to all,
That virtue holds my heart in thrall?
Is it weakness thus to dwell
On passion that I dare not tell?
Such weakness I would ever prove-
'Tis painful, but 'tis sweet to love.-KIRKE WHITE.
Gaudendum cum Gaudentibus.
Joying with the Joyful.
AS lute to lute in harmony attun't,
Vibrates in glad response, as though it shar'd
The joy that thrills the other's waken'd strings;
So let thine heart responsive share the joy
Thy neighbour feels; nor look with sullen eye
On eyes where gladness beams. Learn thou from this
To share in the delight which others feel,
And banish rankling envy from thy breast
When fortune smiles upon the fellow man.-
Learn thou from this no less his grief to soothe
With brotherly response; for just as joy
Gains increase more from that which it bestows,
So grief grows less, lull'd by the soothing tones
Of Pity's kind compassion for her woes.
THOU wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy
right hand there are pleasures for evermore. -Psalm xvi. II.
HERO who dwelt by Hellesponticke strand,
Hang'd forth a Light, Leanders marke for land,
Whither his helmelesse course he steerd and mov'd,
Whilst he made haste to see this welbelov'd,
Which when fierce Boreas with his blustring blast
Put our, he in the floods away was cast:
So that his wedding light became a torch,
To convoy him to Proserpines black porch.
Armighty God who made all by his power,
Holds forth his Light from the Celestiall Tower:
That when the stormes our tossed soules annoy,
It may direct us to our heav'nly joy.
No storme against this Light can so prevaile
But Saints unto their wish-for Haven may faile.
Where for their Wedding torch this Light they have,
Which never shall convoy them to their grave.
FARLIE'S Emblems.
WHO HAS NOT FELT LOVE?
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