Classic Poem

Janus

What would the Season now inferr
By the approach of Janiver
But that the Owld guives place to the New year
December now is past
O let man then at last
Consider
How He the Ten Commandements hath broak
Nor longer lie under sins yoak
To make the breach the wider

But casting of a beak and Skin
With th'Eagle and the Snake begin
To live anew to Grace and die to sin
And This obedience drawe
From Him fullfilld the Law
Like-wise
Chasing all ev'l Affections out of dore
Whilst that our harts defild before
With lust we Circumcise

This be alone our skoap and Drift
And let it serve for New years guift
That from our selves we thus desier to shift
Cutting ofe those delights
Bewitcht our Appetites
To stray
Til entertaining better in their room
We are renewed and become
Sonns not of night but day

And He that winnowes thus his secret mind
Bringes forth good wheat and finds his Land lord kind.