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So now the soul’s sublimed, her sour desires Are re-calcined in Heaven’s well-tempered fires; The heart restored, and purged from drossy nature, Now finds the freedom of a new-born creature; It lives another life, it breathes new breath, It neither fears nor feels the sting of death.

So now the soul’s sublimed, her sour desires Are re-calcined in Heaven’s well-tempered fires; The heart restored, and purged from drossy nature, Now finds the freedom of a new-born creature; It lives another life, it breathes new breath, It neither fears nor feels the sting of death.

Approximate author period: c. 1618 AD · renaissance

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Author or tradition
Francis Quarles
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Approximate author period: c. 1618 AD · renaissance
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A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)

Page 287 · printed citation: Quarles · subject: HEART

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