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Compare with me, ye women, if you can.
I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold
Or all the riches that the East doth hold.
My love is such that rivers cannot quench, Aß
Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense.1
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In silent night when rest I took
For sorrow near I did not look
I wakened was with thund’ring noise
And piteous shrieks of dreadful voice.
That fearful sound of “Fire!” and “Fire!”
Let no man know is my desire.
I, starting up, the light did spy,
And to my God my heart did cry
To strengthen me in my distress
And not to leave me succorless.1
Then, coming out, beheld a space
The flame consume my dwelling place.
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I blest His name that gave and took,2
That laid my goods now in the dust:
Yea, so it was, and so ’twas just.
It was His own, it was not mine,
Far be it that I should repine;3
He might of all justly bereft,
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There lay that store I counted best.
My pleasant things in ashes lie,
And them behold no more shall I.
Under thy roof no guest shall sit,
Nor at thy table eat a bit.
No pleasant tale shall e’er be told,
Nor things recounted done of old.
No candle e’er shall shine in thee,
Nor bridegroom’s voice e’er heard shall be.
In silence ever shalt thou lie;
Adieu, Adieu, all’s vanity.4
Then straight I ’gin my heart to chide,5
And did thy wealth on earth abide?
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Raise up thy thoughts above the sky
That dunghill mists away may fly.
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Framed by that mighty Architect,
With glory richly furnishéd,
Stands permanent though this be fled.
It’s purchaséd and paid for too
By Him who hath enough to do.
A price so vast as is unknown
Yet by His gift is made thine own;
There’s wealth enough, I need no more,
Farewell, my pelf,6 farewell my store.
The world no longer let me love,
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