<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=381176" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Prologue from Preparatory Meditations Before My Approach to The Lord's Supper</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lord, can a crumb of dust the earth outweigh,<br>Outmatch all mountains, nay the crystal sky?<br>Imbosom in't designs that shall display<br>And trace into the boundless deity?<br>Yea, hand a pen whose moisture doth gild o'er<br>Eternal glory with a glorious glore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If it is pen had of an angel's quill,<br>And sharpened on a precious stone ground tight,<br>And dipped in liquid gold, and moved by skill<br>In crystal leaves should golden letters write,<br>It would but blot and blur, yea, jag and jar,<br>Unless Thou mak'st the pen and scribener.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am this crumb of dust which is designed <br>To make my pen unto Thy praise alone,<br>And my dull fancy I would gladly grind<br>Unto an edge on Zion's precious stone;<br>And write in liquid gold upon Thy name<br>My letters till Thy glory forth doth flame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let not th' attempts break down my dust I pray,<br>Nor laugh Thou them to scorn, but pardon give.<br>Inspire this crumb of dust till it display<br>Thy glory through't: and then Thy dust shall live.<br>Its failings then Thou'lt overlook, I trust,<br>They being slips slipped from Thy crumb of dust.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy crumb of dust breathes two words from its breast,<br>That Thou wilt guide its pen to write aright<br>To prove Thou art and that Thou art the best<br>And shew Thy prosperties to shine most bright.<br>And then Thy works will shine as flowers on stems<br>Or as in jewelary shops do gems.</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=381176" data-title="Prologue from Preparatory Meditations Before My Approach to The Lord's Supper de Edward Taylor" data-description="Lord, can a crumb of dust the earth outweigh, Outmatch all mountains, nay the crystal sky? Imbosom in't designs that shall display And trace into the boundless deity? Yea, hand a pen whose moisture doth gild o'er Eternal glory with a glorious glor..."></div> </div> </div>

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