| Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of King James the First. 1847. | | | | Ascention | | II. John Donne |
| | | SALUTE the last, and everlasting day, | |
| Joy at the uprising of this Sunne and Sonne, | |
| Yee whose just teares, or tribulation, | |
| Have purely washt, or burnt your drossie clay: | |
| Behold the Highest, parting hence away, | 5 |
| Lightens the darke clouds, which hee treads upon; | |
| Nor doth hee by ascending show alone, | |
| But first hee, and hee first enters the way. | |
| O strong Ramme, which hast batter’d heaven for mee; | |
| Mild Lambe, which with thy blood hast mark’d the path; | 10 |
| Bright Torch, which shin’st, that I the way may see; | |
| Oh! with thy owne blood quench thy owne just wrath: | |
| And if thy Holy Spirit my muse did raise, | |
| Deigne at my hands this crowne of prayer and praise. | | | | |
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