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Sight

from Poems of Felicity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

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Mine Infant-Ey

Abov the Sky

Discerning endless Place,

Did make me see

Two Sights in me,

Three Eys adorn'd my Face:

Two Luminaries in my Flesh

Did me refresh;

But one did lurk within,

Beneath my Skin,

That was of greater Worth than both the other;

For those were Twins; but this had ne'r a Brother.

Those Eys of Sense

That did dispense

Their Beams to nat'ral things,

I quickly found

In narrow Bound

To know but earthly Springs.

But that which throu the Hevens went

Was excellent,

And Endless; for the Ball

Was Spirit'all:

A visiv Ey things visible doth see;

But with th' Invisible, Invisibles agree.

One World was not

(Be't ne'r forgot)

Ev'n then enough for me:

My better Sight

Was infinit,

New Regions I must see.

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The Works of Thomas Traherne VI
Poems from the 'Dobell Folio', Poems of Felicity, The Ceremonial Law, Poems from the 'Early Notebook'
, pp. 174 - 176
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2014

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  • Sight
  • Edited by Jan Ross
  • Book: The Works of Thomas Traherne VI
  • Online publication: 05 May 2015
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  • Sight
  • Edited by Jan Ross
  • Book: The Works of Thomas Traherne VI
  • Online publication: 05 May 2015
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