Our Saviour (Paterne of true holinesse) Continuall praid Us by ensample teaching, When he was baptized In the wildernesse, In working miracles And in his preaching, Upon the mount In garden grones of death, At his last Supper At his parting breath. O fortresse of the faithfull, Sure defence, In which doth Christians Cognizance consist: Their victories, their triumph Comes from thence, So forcible, hellgates Cannot resist: A thing whereby Both Angels, clouds, and starres, At mans request Fight Gods revengefull warres. Nothing more gratefull In the Highest eyes, Nothing more firme In danger to protect us, Nothing more forcible To pierce the skies, And not depart Till mercy doe respect us: And as the soule Life to the body gives, So prayer revives The soule, by prayer it lives. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...UPON BEN JONSON [JOHNSON] by ROBERT HERRICK FANCIES AT NAVESINK: 6 by WALT WHITMAN WHAT BEST I SEE; TO U.S.G. RETURN'D FROM HIS WORLD'S TOUR by WALT WHITMAN PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 34. AL-'AZIZ by EDWIN ARNOLD PERSISTENCY OF POETRY by MATTHEW ARNOLD |