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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 43: XLIII. Of Fowls flying in the Air.
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.
XLIII. Of Fowls flying in the Air.
Methinks I see a Sight most excellent, All Sorts of Birds fly in the Firmament: Some great, some small, all of a divers kind, Mine Eye affecting, pleasant to my Mind, Look how they tumble in the wholesome Air, Above the World of Worldlings, and their care. And as they divers are in Bulk and Hue, So are they in their way of flying too. So many Birds, so many various things, Tumbling i'th'Element upon their Wings.
MEthinks I see a Sight most excellent, All Sorts of Birds fly in the Firmament: Some great, some small, all of a divers kind, Mine Eye affecting, pleasant to my Mind, Look how they tumble in the wholesom Air, Above the World of Wordlings, and their care. And as they divers are in Bulk and Hue, So are they in their way of flying too. So many Birds, so many various things, Tumbling i'th'Element upon their Wings.
Comparison. These Birds are Emblems of those men, that shall Ere long possess the Heavens, their All in All. They are each of a divers shape, and kind; To teach, we of all Nations there shall find. They are some great, some little, as we see; To show, some great, some small, in Glory be. Their flying diversly, as we behold; Do show Saints Joys will there be manifold. ⟨p. 53⟩Some glide, some mount, some flutter, and some do, In a mixed way of flying, glory too. And all to show each Saint, to his content, Shall roll and tumble in that Firmament.