| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 36. The Morning Watch |
| By Henry Vaughan (1621–1695) |
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| O JOYES! Infinite sweetnes! with what flowres, | |
| And shoots of glory, my soul breakes, and buds | |
| All the long houres | |
| Of night, and Rest, | |
| Through the still shrouds | 5 |
| Of sleep, and Clouds, | |
| This Dew fell on my Breast; | |
| O how it Blouds, | |
| And Spirits all my Earth! heark! In what Rings, | |
| And Hymning Circulations the quick world | 10 |
| Awakes, and sings; | |
| The rising winds, | |
| And falling springs, | |
| Brids, beasts, all things | |
| Adore him in their kinds. | 15 |
| Thus all is hurl’d | |
| In sacred Hymnes, and Order, The great Chime | |
| And Symphony of nature. Prayer is | |
| The world in tune, | |
| A spirit-voyce, | 20 |
| And vocall joyes | |
| Whose Eccho is heav’ns blisse. | |
| O let me climbe | |
| When I lye down! The Pious soul by night | |
| Is like a clouded starre, whose beames though sed | 25 |
| To shed their light | |
| Under some Cloud | |
| Yet are above, | |
| And shine, and move | |
| Beyond that mistie shrowd. | 30 |
| So in my Bed | |
| That Curtain’d grave, though sleep, like ashes, hide | |
| My lamp, and life, both shall in thee abide. | |
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