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The Works of Thomas Traherne VI from Poems from the Dobell Folio
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
1
Ye brisk Divine and Living Things,
Ye great Exemplars, and ye Heavenly Springs,
Which I within me see;
Ye Machines Great,
Which in my Spirit God did Seat,
Ye Engines of Felicitie;
Ye Wondrous Fabricks of his Hands,
Who all possesseth that he understands;
That ye are pent within my Brest,
Yet rove at large from East to West,
And are Invisible, yet Infinite;
Is my Transcendent, and my Best Delight.
2
By you I do the Joys possess
Of Yesterdays-yet-present Blessedness;
As in a Mirror Clear,
Old Objects I
Far distant do even now descrie
Which by your help are present here.
Ye are your selvs the very Pleasures.
The Sweetest, last, and most Substantial Treasures.
The Offsprings and Effects of Bliss
By whose Return my Glory is
Renewd, and represented to my View:
O ye Delights, most Pure, Divine, and True!
3
Ye Thoughts and Apprehensions are
The Heavenly Streams which fill the Soul with rare
Transcendent Perfect Pleasures.
At any time,
As if ye still were in your Prime,
Ye Open all his Heavenly Treasures.
His Joys accessible are found
To you, and those Things enter which Surround
The Soul. Ye Living Things within!
Where had all Joy and Glory been
Had ye not made the Soul those Things to know.
Which Seated in it make the fairest Shew?
4
I know not by what Secret Power
Ye flourish so: but ye within your Bower,
More Beautifull do seem,
And better Meat
Ye daily yeeld my Soul to eat,
Then even the Objects I esteem
Without my Soul. What were the Skie,
What were the Sun, or Stars, did ye not lie
In me! and represent them there
Where els they never could appear!
Yea what were Bliss without such Thoughts to me,
What were my Life, what were the Deitie?
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