Oh, happy prisoner that's at liberty

To walk through th' other World! the Bonds are burn'd,

(But nothing else) in Furnace fiéry.

Such fires unfetter Saints, and set more free

Their unscorch'd Souls for Christ's sweet company.

Cheer on, sweet Soul, although in briny tears

Steept is thy seed; though dying every day;

Thy sheaves shall joyful be when Christ appears,

To change our death and pain to life for aye.

The weepers now shall laugh; the jovial laughter