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Book: Steps to the Temple

• On Mr. G. Herbert's Book, Entitled The Temple : Sacred Poems

  Know you, fair, on what you look ?
  Divinest love lies in this book,

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• A Hymn to the Name and Honour of the Admirable Saint Teresa

  Love, thou are absolute sole lord
  Of life and death. To prove the word,

  182 lines
• In the Holy Nativity of Our Lord God : A Hymn Sung as by the Shepherds

  COME, we shepherds whose blest sight
  Hath met Love's noon in Nature's night ;

  116 lines
• Saint Mar Magdelene; or, The Weeper

  Hail, sister springs,
  Parents of silver-footed rills!

  186 lines

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