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Yet, sluggard, wake, and gull thy soul no more with earth's false pleasures, and the world's delight, whose fruit is fair and pleasing to the sight, but sour in taste, false as the putrid core: thy flaring glass is gems at her half light; she makes thee seeming rich, but truly poor: she boasts a kernel, and bestows a shell; performs an inch of her fair-promis'd ell: her words protest a heav'n; her works produce a hell.

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Yet, Sluggard, Wake, And Gull Thy Soul

Francis Quarles

Yet, sluggard, wake, and gull thy soul no more with earth's false pleasures, and the world's delight, whose fruit is fair and pleasing to the sight, but sour in taste, false as the putrid core: thy flaring glass is gems at her half light; she makes thee seeming rich, but truly poor: she boasts a kernel, and bestows a shell; performs an inch of her fair-promis'd ell: her words protest a heav'n; her works produce a hell.

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Ecclesiastes names thee almighty, the maccabees name thee creator, the epistle to the ephesians names thee liberty, baruch names thee immensity, the psalms name thee wisdom and truth, john names thee light, the book of kings names thee lord, exodus names thee providence, leviticus sanctity, esdras justice, creation names thee god, man names thee father; but solomon names thee compassion, which is the most beautiful of all thy names.

There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. there are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. and then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. the world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: what's up with this glass? excuse me? excuse me? this is my glass? i don't think so. my glass was full! and it was a bigger glass! who's been pinching my beer?

Is it thy will, thy image should keep open my heavy eyelids to the weary night? dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken, while shadows like to thee do mock my sight? is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee so far from home into my deeds to pry, to find out shames and idle hours in me, the scope and tenor of thy jealousy? o, no! thy love, though much, is not so great: it is my love that keeps mine eye awake: mine own true love that doth my rest defeat, to play the watchman ever for thy sake: for thee watch i, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere, from me far off, with others all too near.

Demean thyself more warily in thy study than in the street. if thy public actions have a hundred witnesses, thy private have a thousand. the multitude looks but upon thy actions; thy conscience looks into them: the multitude may chance to excuse thee, if not acquit thee; thy conscience will accuse thee, if not condemn thee.

These are thy glorious works parent of good, almighty, thine this universal frame, thus wondrous fair; thy self how wondrous then! unspeakable, who sitst above these heavens to us invisible or dimly seen in these thy lowest works, yet these declare thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine: speak ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, angels, for ye behold him, and with songs and choral symphonies, day without night, circle his throne rejoicing, ye in heav'n, on earth join all ye creatures to extoll him first, him last, him midst, and without end.

God is alpha and omega in the great world: endeavor to make him so in the little world; make him thy evening epilogue and thy morning prologue; practice to make him thy last thought at night when thou sleepest, and thy first thought in the morning when thou awakest; so shall thy fancy be sanctified in the night, and thy understanding rectified in the day; so shall thy rest be peaceful, thy labors prosperous, thy life pious, and thy death glorious.

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