then to fear at all
So long as I about thee crawl?
But if that tree should fall and die,
Tumble shall heaven, and down will I.

Here are now a few chosen from many that--to borrow a term from
Crashaw--might be called

DIVINE EPIGRAMS.

God, when he's angry here with any one,
His wrath is free from perturbation;
And when we think his looks are sour and grim,
The alteration is in us, not him.

* * * * *

God can't be wrathful; but we may conclude
Wrathful he may be by similitude:
God's wrathful said to be when he doth do
That without wrath, which wrath doth force us to.

* * * * *

'Tis hard to find God; but to comprehend
Him as he is, is labour without end.

* * * * *

God's rod doth watch while men do sleep, and then
The rod doth sleep while vigilant are men.

* * * * *

A man's trangression God does then remit,
When man he makes a penitent for it.

* * * * *

God, when he takes my goods and chattels hence,
Gives me a portion, giving patience:
What is in God is God: if so it be
He patience gives, he gives himself to me.

* * * * *

Humble we must be, if to heaven we go;
High is the roof there, but the gate is low.

* * * * *

God who's in heaven, will hear from thence,
If not to the sound, yet to the sense.

* * * * *

The same who crowns the conqueror, will be
A coadjutor in the agony.

* * * * *

God is so potent, as his power can _that._
Draw out of bad a sovereign good to man.

* * * * *

Paradise is, as from the learn'd I gather,
A choir of blest souls circling in the Father.

* * * * *

Heaven is not given for our good works here;
Yet it is given to the labourer.

* * * * *

One more for the sake of Martha, smiled at by so many because they are
incapable either of her blame or her sister's praise.

The repetition of the name, made known
No other than Christ's full affection.

And so farewell to the very lovable Robert Herrick.

Francis Quarles was born in 1592. I have not much to say about him,
popular as he was in his own day, f