Full of true justice and sure verity,
In heart and voice; free, large, even infinite;
Not wedged in straight particularity,
But grasping all in her vast active sprite—
Bright Lamp of God, that men would joy in
Thy pure light.”
More died in 1687. The same year Edmund Waller passed away, singing the following lines, which complete and crown his Divine Poems; lines which indicate faith in the life and immortality brought to light by the Gospel, and which convey aspirations breathed by Christians of every Church and creed:—
“The seas are quiet when the winds are o’er;
So calm are we when passions are no more:
For then we know how vain it was to boast