On
Reading
Mons
r
.
de
RENTY's
Life
.
WE
deem
the
Saints
,
from
mortal
Flesh
releas'd
,
With
brighter
Day
,
and
bolder
Raptures
blest
:
Sense
now
no
more
precludes
the
distant
Thought
,
And
naked
Souls
now
feel
the
GOD
they
sought
,
But
thy
great
Soul
,
which
walk'd
with
GOD
on
Earth
Can
scarce
be
nearer
by
that
second
Birth
:
By
Change
of
Place
dull
Bodies
may
improve
,
But
Spirits
to
their
Bliss
advance
by
Love
.
Thy
Change
insensible
brought
no
Surprize
,
Inur'd
to
Innocence
and
Paradise
:
For
Earth
,
not
Heav'n
,
thou
thro'
a
Glass
didst
view
,
The
Glass
was
Love
;
and
Love
no
Evil
knew
,
But
in
all
Places
only
Heav'n
did
shew
.
Canst
Thou
Love
more
,
when
from
a
Body
freed
,
Which
so
much
Life
,
so
little
had
of
Need
?
So
pure
,
it
seem'd
for
This
alone
design'd
,
To
usher
forth
the
Virtues
of
the
Mind
!
From
Nature's
Chain
,
from
Earthly
Dross
set
free
,
One
only
Appetite
remained
in
Thee
:
That
Appetite
it
mourn'd
but
once
deny'd
,
For
when
it
ceas'd
from
serving
GOD
,
it
dy'd
.