<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=381174" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Preparatory Meditations - Second Series: 146</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Canticles 6:13. Return, oh Shulamite, Return, Return)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My dear, dear Lord, I know not what to say:<br>Speech is too coarse a web for me to clothe<br>My love to Thee in or it to array<br>Or make a mantle. Would'st Thou not such loathe?<br>Thy love to me's too great for me to shape<br>A vesture for the same at any rate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When as Thy love doth touch my heart down-tossed<br>It tremblingly runs, seeking Thee its all,<br>And as a child when it his nurse hath lost<br>Runs seeking her, and after her doth call.<br>So when Thou hid'st from me, I seek and sigh.<br>Thou sayest, 'Return, return, Oh Shulamite.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rent out on use Thy love, Thy love I pray.<br>My love to Thee shall be Thy rent, and I <br>Thee use on use, int'rest on int'rest pay.<br>There's none extortion in such usury.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'll pay Thee use on for 't and therefore<br>Thou shalt become the greatest usurer.<br>But yet the principal I'll ne'er restore.<br>The same is Thine and mine. We shall not jar.<br>And so this blessed usury shall be<br>Most profitable both to Thee and me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And shouldst Thou hide Thy shining face most fair<br>Away from me. And in a sinking wise<br>My trembling beating heart brought nigh t' despair<br>Should cry to Thee and in a trembling guise,<br>Lord, quicken it. Drop in its ears delight,<br>Saying, 'Return, return, my Shulamite.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edward+Taylor">Edward Taylor</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=381174" data-title="Preparatory Meditations - Second Series: 146 de Edward Taylor" data-description="(Canticles 6:13. Return, oh Shulamite, Return, Return) My dear, dear Lord, I know not what to say: Speech is too coarse a web for me to clothe My love to Thee in or it to array Or make a mantle. Would'st Thou not such loathe? Thy love to me's too..."></div> </div> </div>

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