Angel Help
tablet doth include
Poverty itude.
Past midnigh spun,
And yet t half done,
supply from earnings scant
A feeble bed-rid parents .
ion ask
And ake up task;
Unseen the rock and spindle ply,
And do hly drudgery.
Sleep, saintly poor one! sleep, sleep on;
And, hey labours done.
Perc by her dreams;
the golden gleams,
Angelic presence testifying,
t round her everywhere are flying;
Ostents from which she may presume,
t muche room.
Skirting hey run,
And to the sunny add more sun:
No aged face they fix,
Streaming from the Crucifix;
t disabusing,
Death-disarming sleeps infusing,
Prelibations, foretastes high,
And equal ts to live or die.
Gardener bright from Edens bower,
tend lily flower;
to its leaves and root infuse
heavens sunshine, heavens dews.
tis a type, and tis a pledge,
Of a crowning privilege.
Careful as t lily flower,
t keep her precious dower;
Live a sainted Maid, or die
Martyr to virginity.