Silence excerpt

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An unperceived donor gave all pleasures;

There nothing was but I, and all my treasures.

In that fair world,

One only was the friend,

One golden stream, one spring, one only end.

There only one did sacrifice and

To only one eternal heavenly King.

The union was so strait between these two,

That all was either's which my soul could view;

His gifts and my possessions, both our treasures;

He mine, and I the ocean of his pleasures.

He was an ocean of delights from

The living springs and golden streams did come:

My bosom was an ocean into which They all did run.  And me they did enrichA vast and infinite

Did make my bosom like the Deity,

In whose mysterious and celestial

All ages and all worlds together shined.

Who tho' He nothing said did always

And in Himself eternity contain.

The world was more in me than I in it.

The King of Glory in my soul did sit.

And to Himself in me He always

All that He takes delight to me me have.

For so my spirit was an endless sphere,

Like God Himself, and heaven and earth was there.