Non triquetrum to to Corest satiabile Mundo, Solum que fecit Correplet una Trias.

The INSATIABILITY of the HEART.

The World won't do... Thy Heart's but empty still: The Trinity must that Triangle fill.

The INSATIABLENESS of the Heart.

HAB. ii. 5.

Who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied.

EPIG. 10.

THE whole round world is not enough to fill
The heart's three corners, but it craveth still,
Only the Trinity, that made it, can
Suffice the vast triangled heart of man.

ODE X.

1.

The thirsty earth and barren womb cry, give:
The grave devoureth all that live:
The fire still burneth on, and never saith,.
It is enough: The horse-leech hath
Many more daughters: but the heart of man
Outgapes them all as much as heav'n one span.

2.

Water hath drown'd the earth: the barren womb
Hath teem'd sometimes, and been the tomb

To its own swelling issue: and the grave

Shall one day a sick surfeit have:

When all the fuel is consum'd, the fire
Will quench itself, and of itself expire.

But

3.

But the vast heart of man's insatiate,
His boundless appetites dilate
Themselves beyond all limits, his desires
Are endless still; whilst he aspires

To happiness, and fain would find that treasure
Where it is not; his wishes know no measure.

4.

His eye with seeing is not satisfy'd,

Nor's ear with hearing: he hath try'd

At once to furnish ev'ry sev'ral sense,

With choice of curious objects, whence

He might extract, and into one unite,
A perfect quintessence of all delight.

5.

Yet, having all that he can fancy, still
There wanted more to fill

His empty appetite. His mind is vex'd,
And he is inwardly perplex'd, "

He knows not why: when as the truth is this,
He would find something there, where nothing is.

6.

He rambles over all the faculties,

Ransacks the secret treasuries

Of art and nature, spells the universe
Letter by letter, can rehearse

All the records of time, pretends to know
Reasons of all things, why they must be so.

Yet

7.

Yet is not so contented, but would fain
Pry in God's cabinet, and gain
Intelligence from heav'n of things to come,
Anticipate the day of doom,

And read the issues of all actions so,
As if God's secret counsel he did know.

8.

Let him have all the wealth, all the renown,
And glory, that the world can crown
Her dearest darlings with; yet his desire
Will not rest there, but still aspire.
Earth cannot hold him, nor the whole creation
Contain his wishes, or his expectation.

9.

The heart of man's but little; yet this All,
Compared thereunto, 's but small,

Of such a large unparallel'd extense

Is the short-lin'd circumference,
Of that three-corner'd figure, which to fill
With the round world, is to leave empty still.

10.

So, greedy soul, address thyself to heav'n

And leave the world, as 'tis bereav'n

Of all true happiness, or any thing

That to thine heart content can bring,.

But there a tri-une God in glory sits,

Who all grace-thirsting hearts both fills and fits.

VOL. II.

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