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1Seest thou
this horizontal bird1
, whose eyes2Are fixed, immovable, upon the skies,
3Though night obscures the radiant
Delia’s2
rays,4Though clouds do muffle his bright face
adays3
?5Whether she goes, or feeds, or breeds, or flies,
6Yet still to Heav’n she rolls her longing eyes.
7So doth the
sunfish4
, whose fair eyes are fixed8On Heav’n alone; her love sure is
unmixed5
,9Although the sea works high, and billows swell
10Almost to Heav’n, then down as low as Hell.
11Though
hurricanians6
make the welkin7
roar,12And mariners their woeful
wracks8
deplore9
,13Yet she is still the same she was before.
14E’en so those souls whose hopes and joys above
15Are only placed,
reverberates10
that love16To Heav’n from whence they had
irradiation11
,17Performing so the
end12
of their creation.18So imitate this soul, that bird, and fish,
19And though things answer not thy hopes or wish,
20Yet look towards Heav’n, on God alone depend:
21He will thy suff’rings mitigate or end.
22And trust not Fortune, nor her amorous smiles;
23For when she courts us most, she most
beguiles13
.24Nor fear her frowns, for there is one on high
25At whose bright footstool Fate and Fortune lie:
26To Him alone, to Him for comfort
fly14
.