The Rapture

Sweet Infancy!  

 O fire of heaven! O sacred Light  

 How fair and bright,  

 How great am I,  

Whom all the world doth magnify!

   O Heavenly Joy!  

O great and sacred blessedness  

 Which I possess!  

 So great a joy  

Who did into my arms convey?  

   From God above  

Being sent, the Heavens me enflame:  

 To praise his Name  

 The stars do move!  

The burning sun doth shew His love.

   O how divine  

Am I! To all this sacred wealth,  

 This life and health,  

 Who raised? Who mine  

Did make the same? What hand divine?