Steps to the Temple
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The opening
SAINTE MARY MAGDALENE, OR THE WEEPER.
Loe! where a wounded heart with bleeding eyes conspire. Is she a flaming fountain, or a weeping fire?
Hail, sister springs! Parents of syluer-footed rills! Euer-bubling things! Thawing crystall! snowy hills Still spending, neuer spent! I mean Thy fair eyes, sweet Magdalene!
Heauens thy fair eyes be; Heauens of euer-falling starres. ’Tis seed-time still with thee; And starres thou sow’st, whose haruest dares Promise the Earth, to counter-shine Whateuer makes heaun’s forehead fine.
But we’ are deceiuèd all: Starres indeed they are too true; For they but seem to fall, As heaun’s other spangles doe: It is not for our Earth and vs To shine in things so pretious.
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