Annotations
Miracles men's faith do move: The language used in this line sets up an analogy to the last line in this stanza,
There's a religion in our Love. The Oxford English Dictionary defines the first use of miracle in 1160 as
"A marvellous event not ascribable to human power or the operation of any natural force and therefore attributed to
supernatural, esp. divine, agency; esp. an act (e.g. of healing) demonstrating control over nature and serving
as evidence that the agent is either divine or divinely favoured."
FRIENDSHIP'S MYSTERYS:
TO MY DEAREST LUCASIA
Come, my
Lucasia, since we see
That
miracles men's faith do move,
By wonder and by prodigy
To the dull, angry world let's prove
There's a
religion in our
Love.
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For though we were design'd t'agree,
That fate no liberty destroys,
But our
election is as free
As
Angells, who with greedy choice
Are yet determin'd to their
Joys.
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Our hearts are
doubled by their loss,
Here mixture is addition grown;
We both
diffuse and both
engross:
And we, whose minds are so much one,
Never, yet ever, are alone.
We court our own captivity,
Then
Thrones more great and innocent:
`
Twere banishment to be set free,
Since we weare
fetters whose intent
Not bondage is, but Ornament.
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Divided Joys are tedious found,
And griefs united easyer grow:
We are our selves but by rebound,
And all our
titles shuffled so,
Both Princes, and both subjects too.
Our hearts are
mutuall victims lay'd,
While they (such power in friendship ly's)
Are
Altars, Priests, and off'rings made,
And each heart which thus kindly dy's,
Grows deathless by the sacrifise.
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