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SLEEP

While I do rest, my Soul advance;
Make my sleep a holy trance;

That I may, my rest being wrought,
Awake into some holy thought;
And with as active vigour run
My course as doth the nimble Sun.
Sleep is a death: O make me try,
By sleeping, what it is to die;
And as gently lay my head
On my grave, as now my bed.
Howe'er I rest, great God, let me
Awake again at last with Thee;
And thus assur'd, behold I lie
Securely, or to awake or die.
These are my drowsie days; in vain
I do now wake to sleep again;

O come that hour, when I shall never
Sleep again, but wake for ever!

This is the Dormitive I take to bedward; I need no other Laudanum than this to make me sleep; after which I close mine eyes in security, content to take my leave of the Sun, and sleep unto the Resurrection.

SIR THOMAS BROWNE

DIVINITY IN MAN

THE Kingdom of God is within you.

Tor circa unum caput tumultuantes Deos

Quid aliud est anima quam Deus in corpore humano hospitans?

Look within.

SENECA

Within is the fountain of good, and it

will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

MARCUS AURELIUS

LET me ever worship the great God of this little god, my soule.

HENRY MONTAGU, EARL OF MANCHESTER

You will never enjoy the world aright till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.

THOMAS TRAHERNE

GOD created Man in His image-and Man made haste to return the compliment.

HEINE

IF

If Children, then Heirs

F a man should be able to assent to this doctrine as he ought, that we are all sprung from God in an especial manner, and that God is the father both of men and of gods, I suppose that he would never have any ignoble or mean thoughts about himself. If Cæsar 1 should adopt you, no one could endure your arrogance. What, then, and if you know you are the son of God, will you not be elated? Yet we do not so; but while these two things are mingled in the generation of man-body in common with the animals, and reason and intelligence in common with the gods --many incline to this kinship which is miserable and mortal, and some few to that which is divine and happy.

EPICTETUS

I

Valedictory to the River Duddon

THOUGHT of Thee, my partner and my guide,

As being past away-vain sympathies !

For backward, Duddon, as I cast my eyes, I see what was, and is, and will abide;

1 i.e. the Emperor.

THE UNIVERSAL IN MAN

Still glides the Stream, and shall for ever glide;
The Form remains, the Function never dies;
While we, the brave, the mighty and the wise,
We Men, who in our morn of youth defied

The elements, must vanish;—be it so!
Enough if something from our hand have power
To live and act and serve the future hour;
And if, as toward the silent tomb we go,
Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent
dower

We feel that we are greater than we know.

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

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The Universal in Man

HERE is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent. . . . Of the universal mind each individual man is one more incarnation. All its properties consist in him. Every step in his private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done, and the crises of his life refer to national crises. Every revolution was first a thought in one

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