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Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917.

Thomas Traherne (1637?–1674)

44. The Rapture

SWEET Infancy!

O fire of heaven! O sacred Light

How fair and bright,

How great am I,

Whom all the world doth magnify!

O Heavenly Joy!

O great and sacred blessedness

Which I possess!

So great a joy

Who did into my arms convey?

From God above

Being sent, the Heavens me enflame:

To praise his Name

The stars do move!

The burning sun doth shew His love.

O how divine

Am I! To all this sacred wealth,

This life and health,

Who raised? Who mine

Did make the same? What hand divine?