What powerful Spirit lives within! 
 What active Angel doth inhabit here! 
 What heavenly light inspires my skin, 
Which doth so like a Deity appear! 
A living Temple of all ages, I 
 Within me see 
 A Temple of Eternity! 
 All Kingdoms I descry 
 In me. 
 
 An inward Omnipresence here
Mysteriously like His within me stands, 
 Whose knowledge is a Sacred Sphere 
That in itself at once includes all lands. 
There is some Angel that within me can 
 Both talk and move, 
 And walk and fly and see and love, 
 A man on earth, a man 
 Above. 
 
 Dull walls of clay my Spirit leaves, 
And in a foreign Kingdom doth appear, 
 This great Apostle it receives, 
Admires His works and sees them, standing here, 
Within myself from East to West I move 
 As if I were 
 At once a Cherubim and Sphere, 
 Or was at once above 
 And here. 
 
 The Soul?s a messenger whereby 
Within our inward Temple we may be 
 Even like the very Deity 
In all the parts of His Eternity. 
O live within and leave unwieldy dross! 
 Flesh is but clay! 
 O fly my Soul and haste away 
 To Jesus? Throne or Cross! 
 Obey!