Discipline

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Title:     Discipline
Author: Henry Vaughan [More Titles by Vaughan]

Fair Prince of Light! Light's living Well
Who hast the keys of death and Hell!
If the mole[1] man despise Thy day,
Put chains of darkness in his way.
Teach him how deep, how various are
The counsels of Thy love and care.
When acts of grace and a long peace,
Breed but rebellion, and displease,
Then give him his own way and will,
Where lawless he may run, until
His own choice hurts him, and the sting
Of his foul sins full sorrows bring.
If Heaven and angels, hopes and mirth,
Please not the mole so much as earth:
Give him his mine to dig, or dwell,
And one sad scheme of hideous Hell.

FOOTNOTE:

[1] The original edition has mule.

[The end]
Henry Vaughan's poem: Discipline

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