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“My God, I heard this day

That none doth build a stately habitation

But he that means to dwell therein.

What house more stately hath there been,

Or can be, than is Man? to whose creation

All things are in decay.

“Man is all symmetry

Full of proportions, one limb to another,

And all to all the world besides;

Each part may call the farthest brother,

For head with foot hath private amity,

And both with moons and tides.

“For us the winds do blow,

The earth doth rest, heaven move, and fountains flow:

Nothing we see but means our good

As our delight or as our treasure,

The whole is either our cupboard of food,

Or cabinet of pleasure.

“Since then, my God, thou hast

So brave a palace built. Oh, dwell in it,

That it may dwell with thee at last!

Till then afford us so much wit

That as the world serves us, we may serve thee

And both thy servants be.”