II
By you I do the joys possess
Of yesterday's-yet-present blessedness;
As in a mirror clear,
Old objects I
Far distant do even now descry,
Which by your help are present here.
Ye are yourselves the very pleasures,
The sweetest, last, and most substantial treasures:
The offsprings and effects of bliss
By whose return my glory is
Renew'd and represented to my view:
O ye delights, most pure, divine, and true!