'His wither'd fist stil knocking at deathes dore,
Tumbling and driveling as he drawes his breth;
For briefe, the shape and messenger of death.'
10
God no distance knows,
All of the whole possessing!
First published in Lit. Rem., i. 279. Compare Religious Musings, ll. 156-7.
11
Wherefore art thou come? doth not the Creator of all things know all things? And if thou art come to seek him, know that where thou wast, there he was.
First published in 1893. Compare the Wanderings of Cain.