StoryTitle("caps", "A~Hymn to the Name~and~Honour of~the Admirable~Saint~Teresa") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love, thou are absolute, sole Lord ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of life and death. To prove the word, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We'll now appeal to none of all ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Those thy old soldiers, great and tall, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ripe men of martyrdom, that could reach down ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With strong arms their triumphant crown: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Such as could with lusty breath ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Speak loud, unto the face of death, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Their great Lord's glorious name; to none ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of those whose spacious bosoms spread a throne ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For love at large to fill. Spare blood and sweat: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We'll see Him take a private seat, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And make His mansion in the mild ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And milky soul of a soft child. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Scarce has she learnt to lisp a name ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of martyr, yet she thinks it shame ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Life should so long play with that breath ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which spent can buy so brave a death. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She never undertook to know ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What death with love should have to do. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor has she e'er yet understood ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Why, to show love, she should shed blood; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet, though she cannot tell you why, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She can love, and she can die. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Scarce has she blood enough to make ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A guilty sword blush for her sake; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet has a heart dares hope to prove ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How much less strong is death than love. . . . ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Since 'tis not to be had at home, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She'll travel for a martyrdom. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No home for her, confesses she, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But where she may a martyr be. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She'll to the Moors, and trade with them ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For this unvalued diadem; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She offers them her dearest breath, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With Christ's name in't, in charge for death: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She'll bargain with them, and will give ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Them God, and teach them how to live ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In Him; or, if they this deny, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For Him she'll teach them how to die. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So shall she leave amongst them sown ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her Lord's blood, or at least her own. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Farewell then, all the world, adieu! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Teresa is no more for you. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Farewell all pleasures, sports, and joys, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Never till now esteeméd toys! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Farewell whatever dear may be— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Mother's arms, or father's knee! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Farewell house, and farewell home! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She's for the Moors and Martyrdom. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sweet, not so fast; lo! thy fair spouse, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whom thou seek'st with so swift vows, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Calls thee back, and bids thee come ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "T' embrace a milder martyrdom. . . . ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O how oft shalt thou complain ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of a sweet and subtle pain! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of intolerable joys! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of a death, in which who dies ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Loves his death, and dies again, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And would for ever so be slain; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And lives and dies, and knows not why ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To live, but that he still may die! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How kindly will thy gentle heart ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Kiss the sweetly-killing dart! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And close in his embraces keep ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Those delicious wounds, that weep ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Balsam, to heal themselves with thus, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When these thy deaths, so numerous, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shall all at once die into one, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And melt thy soul's sweet mansion; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like a soft lump of incense, hasted ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By too hot a fire, and wasted ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Into perfuming clouds, so fast ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shalt thou exhale to heaven at last ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In a resolving sigh, and then,— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O what? Ask not the tongues of men. ", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Angels cannot tell; suffice, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thyself shalt feel thine own full joys, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And hold them fast for ever there. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So soon as thou shalt first appear, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The moon of maiden stars, thy white ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Mistress, attended by such bright ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Souls as thy shining self, shall come, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And in her first ranks make thee room; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where, 'mongst her snowy family, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Immortal welcomes wait for thee. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O what delight, when she shall stand ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And teach thy lips heaven, with her hand, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On which thou now may'st to thy wishes ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Heap up thy consecrated kisses! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What joy shall seize thy soul, when she, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bending her blesséd eyes on thee, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Those second smiles of heaven, shall dart ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her mild rays through thy melting heart! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Angels, thy old friends, there shall greet thee, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Glad at their own home now to meet thee. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All thy good works which went before, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And waited for thee at the door, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shall own thee there; and all in one ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Weave a constellation ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of crowns, with which the King, thy spouse, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shall build up thy triumphant brows. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All thy old woes shall now smile on thee, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And thy pains sit bright upon thee: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All thy sorrows here shall shine, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And thy sufferings be divine. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tears shall take comfort, and turn gems, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And wrongs repent to diadems. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Even thy deaths shall live, and new ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dress the soul which late they slew. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy wounds shall blush to such bright scars ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As keep account of the Lamb's wars. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Those rare works, where thou shalt leave writ ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love's noble history, with wit ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Taught thee by none but Him, while here ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They feed our souls, shall clothe thine there. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Each heavenly word by whose hid flame ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our hard hearts shall strike fire, the same ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shall flourish on thy brows, and be ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Both fire to us and flame to thee; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whose light shall live bright in thy face ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By glory, in our hearts by grace. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thou shalt look round about, and see ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thousands of crown'd souls throng to be ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Themselves thy crown, sons of thy vows, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The virgin-births with which thy spouse ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Made fruitful thy fair soul; go now, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And with them all about thee bow ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To Him; put on, He'll say, put on, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My rosy Love, that thy rich zone, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sparkling with the sacred flames ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of thousand souls, whose happy names ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Heaven keeps upon thy score: thy bright ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Life brought them first to kiss the light ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That kindled them to stars; and so ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thou with the Lamb, thy Lord, shalt go. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, wheresoe'er He sets His white ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Steps, walk with Him those ways of light, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which who in death would live to see, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Must learn in life to die like thee.", "") ?>
Poet("Richard Crashaw", "1613?–1649") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>