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A book for boys and girls, or, Country rhymes for childrenA book for boys and girls, or, Country rhimes for children
A book for boys and girls, or, Country rhymes for children by J.B.A book for boys and girls, or, Country rhimes for children by J.B.
London: printed for N.P., 1686
Title page typeset from the transcription.
A BOOK FOR Boys and Girls, &c. › Poem 12: XII. Meditations upon the Candle.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
XII. Meditations upon the Candle.
Man's like a Candle in a Candlestick, Made up of Tallow, and a little Wick;
MAn's like a Candle in a Candlestick, Made up of Tallow, and a little Wick;
And as the Candle is when 'tis not lighted, So is he who is in his sins benighted. Nor can a man his Soul with Grace inspire, More then can Candles set themselves on fire.
Candles receive their light from what they are not; Men Grace from him, for whom at first they care not.
We manage Candles when they take the fire; God men, when he with Grace doth them inspire.