To cozen man, when sin had once beguiled him.
Both called him forth, and questioning advisèd
To say whose servant he would fairly yield him.
Man, weening then but to the World to’ have given him, 5
By the false World became the slave of Death;
But from their fraud he did appeal by faith
To Him whose death killed Death, and from the world has driven him.
Joshua Sylvester.
VIII
THE STORY OF A SUMMER DAY.
O perfect Light, which shaid away