TRANSLATED OUT OF G'AZEUS.
'ota Amieo.facto,.fol.
Gon grant thee thine own wish, and grant thee mine, Thou who dost, best friend, in best things outshine: May thy soul, ever cheerful, ne'er know cares; Nor thy lire, ever lively, know gray hairs; Nor thy hand, ever open, know hase holds; iNor thy purse, ever plump, know plaits or folds; 1Nor thy tongue, ever truc, know a false thing; Nor thy words, ever nfild, klmw quarrelling; Nor thy works, ever equal, know disguise; or thy faine, ever pure, know contumelies; M'or thy prayers know low objects, still divine God grant thee thine own wish, and grant thee mine.
St.xcz I ara coming to that holy room XVhere with the choir of saints for evermore I shall be ruade thy music, as I corne I tune the instrument here at the door, And what I must do then think here before.
V'hilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their mass, who lie ilat on this bed, that by them may be shown, That this is my south-west discovery Per.fret«m.febris, by these straits to die.
I joy that in these strait I sec my west; For though those currents yield return to none, V'hat shall my west hurt me. as west and east In ail fiat maps (and I ara one) are one, So death doth touch the resurrection.
Is the Pacific Sea my home . or are The estern riches. Is Jerusalem, Anyan, and Magellan, and Gibraltar. Ail straits, and none but straits are ways to them, Vhether where Japheth dwelt, or Cham, or Sera.
Z4ISCELLANEOUS PIECES.
We think that paradise and calvary, Christ's cross and Adam's tree, stood in one place; Look, Lord! and find both Adams met in me: As the first Adam's sweat surrounds my face, Iay the last Adanfs blood my soul embrace. So in his purplc wrapped receivc me, Lord! ]3y these his thorns give me his holy crown; And as to others" souls I preached thy V'ord, Bc this my text, my sermon to mine owu » Therefore, that he may raise, the Lord throws down.