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Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 1845.

The Praise of a Contented Minde

LXXIV. Henry Willobie

THE GOD that framde the fixed pole

And lamps of gleaming light,

The azure skies and twinkling starres,

To yeeld this pleasant sight;

In wisdome pight this peerelesse plot,

A rare surpassing frame;

And so with braue and sweet delights

Haue fraught and dect the same;

That euery creature keepes his course,

His compasse and his place,

And with delightfull ioye doth runne

His ’pointed time and place.

In one consent they friendly ioyne,

From which they cannot fall,

As if the Lord had first ordained

One soule to guide them all.

In euery part there doth remaine

Such loue and free consent;

That euery frame doth kisse his lot,

And cries, “I am content.”