SPEED

The liquid pearl in springs,The useful and the precious thingsAre in a moment known.Their very glory does reveal their worth(And that doth set their glory forth);As soon as I was born they all were shewn.

The liquid pearl in springs,The useful and the precious thingsAre in a moment known.Their very glory does reveal their worth(And that doth set their glory forth);As soon as I was born they all were shewn.

The liquid pearl in springs,The useful and the precious thingsAre in a moment known.Their very glory does reveal their worth(And that doth set their glory forth);As soon as I was born they all were shewn.

The liquid pearl in springs,

The useful and the precious things

Are in a moment known.

Their very glory does reveal their worth

(And that doth set their glory forth);

As soon as I was born they all were shewn.

True living wealth did flowIn crystal streams belowMy feet, and trilling downIn pure, transparent, soft, sweet, melting pleasures,Like precious and diffusive treasures,At once my body fed, and soul did crown.

True living wealth did flowIn crystal streams belowMy feet, and trilling downIn pure, transparent, soft, sweet, melting pleasures,Like precious and diffusive treasures,At once my body fed, and soul did crown.

True living wealth did flowIn crystal streams belowMy feet, and trilling downIn pure, transparent, soft, sweet, melting pleasures,Like precious and diffusive treasures,At once my body fed, and soul did crown.

True living wealth did flow

In crystal streams below

My feet, and trilling down

In pure, transparent, soft, sweet, melting pleasures,

Like precious and diffusive treasures,

At once my body fed, and soul did crown.

I was as high and greatAs Kings are in their seat.All other things were mine.The world my house, the creatures were my goods,Fields, mountains, valleys, woods,Men and their arts to make me rich combine.

I was as high and greatAs Kings are in their seat.All other things were mine.The world my house, the creatures were my goods,Fields, mountains, valleys, woods,Men and their arts to make me rich combine.

I was as high and greatAs Kings are in their seat.All other things were mine.The world my house, the creatures were my goods,Fields, mountains, valleys, woods,Men and their arts to make me rich combine.

I was as high and great

As Kings are in their seat.

All other things were mine.

The world my house, the creatures were my goods,

Fields, mountains, valleys, woods,

Men and their arts to make me rich combine.

Great, lofty, endless, stable,Various and Innumerable,Bright, useful, fair, divine.Immovable and sweet the treasures were,The sacred objects did appearMore rich and beautiful, as well as mine.

Great, lofty, endless, stable,Various and Innumerable,Bright, useful, fair, divine.Immovable and sweet the treasures were,The sacred objects did appearMore rich and beautiful, as well as mine.

Great, lofty, endless, stable,Various and Innumerable,Bright, useful, fair, divine.Immovable and sweet the treasures were,The sacred objects did appearMore rich and beautiful, as well as mine.

Great, lofty, endless, stable,

Various and Innumerable,

Bright, useful, fair, divine.

Immovable and sweet the treasures were,

The sacred objects did appear

More rich and beautiful, as well as mine.

New all! new-burnisht joys;Tho' now by other toysEclipst: new all and mine.Great Truth so sacred seemed for this to me,Because the things which I did seeWere such, my state I knew to be divine.

New all! new-burnisht joys;Tho' now by other toysEclipst: new all and mine.Great Truth so sacred seemed for this to me,Because the things which I did seeWere such, my state I knew to be divine.

New all! new-burnisht joys;Tho' now by other toysEclipst: new all and mine.Great Truth so sacred seemed for this to me,Because the things which I did seeWere such, my state I knew to be divine.

New all! new-burnisht joys;

Tho' now by other toys

Eclipst: new all and mine.

Great Truth so sacred seemed for this to me,

Because the things which I did see

Were such, my state I knew to be divine.

Nor did the Angels' faces,The glories and the graces,The beauty, peace and joyOf Heaven itself, more sweetness yield to me.Till filthy sin did all destroyThose were the offspring of the Deity.

Nor did the Angels' faces,The glories and the graces,The beauty, peace and joyOf Heaven itself, more sweetness yield to me.Till filthy sin did all destroyThose were the offspring of the Deity.

Nor did the Angels' faces,The glories and the graces,The beauty, peace and joyOf Heaven itself, more sweetness yield to me.Till filthy sin did all destroyThose were the offspring of the Deity.

Nor did the Angels' faces,

The glories and the graces,

The beauty, peace and joy

Of Heaven itself, more sweetness yield to me.

Till filthy sin did all destroy

Those were the offspring of the Deity.


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