O Love ! Ye amities,
And friendships that appear above the skies !Ye feasts and living pleasures !
Ye senses, honours, and imperial treasures !
Ye bridal joys ! ye high delights
That satisfy all appetites !
Ye sweet affections, and
Ye high respects ! Whatever joys there beIn triumphs, whatsoever stand
In amicable sweet society,
Whatever pleasures are at His right hand,
Ye must before I am divine,
In full propriety be mine.This soaring, sacred thirst,
Ambassador of bliss, approached first,Making a place in me
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That made me apt to prize, and taste, and see.
For not the objects but the sense
Of things doth bliss to souls dispense,
And make it, Lord, like thee.