Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903.
By Robert Herrick (1591–1674)To find God
| WEIGH me the fire; or can’st thou find | |
| A way to measure out the wind; | |
| Distinguish all those floods that are | |
| Mix’d in that watery theatre; | |
| And taste thou them as saltless there | 5 |
| As in their channel first they were. | |
| Tell me the people that do keep | |
| Within the kingdoms of the deep; | |
| Or fetch me back that cloud again, | |
| Beshiver’d into seeds of rain; | 10 |
| Tell me the motes, dust, sands, and spears | |
| Of corn, when summer shakes his ears; | |
| Show me that world of stars, and whence | |
| They noiseless spill their influence: | |
| This if thou can’st, then show me Him | 15 |
| That rides the glorious cherubim. | |