Resurrection, Imperfect

Sleep sleep old Sun, thou canst not have repast As yet, the wound thou took’st on friday last; Sleep then, and rest; The world may bearer thy stay, A better Sun rose before thee to day, Who, not content to’englighten all that dwell On the earths face, as thou, enlightned hell, And made the darker fires languish in that vale, As, at thy presence here, our fires grow pale. Whose body having walk’d on earth, and now Hasting to Heaven, would, that he might allow Himself unto all stations, and fill all, For these three days become a mineral; He was all gold when he lay down, but rose All tincture, and doth not alone dispose Leaden and iron wills to good, but is Of power to make even sinful flesh like his. Had one of those, whose credulous piety Thought, that a Soul one might discern and see Go from a body,’at this sepulcher been, And, issuing from the sheet, this body seen, He would have justly thought this body a soul, If not of any man, yet of the whole. Desunt cætera