God Is A Distant stately Lover

poem 357

God is a distant stately Lover Woos, as He states us by His Son Verily, a Vicarious Courtship Miles, and Priscilla, were such an One But, lest the Soul like fair Priscilla Choose the Envoy and spurn the Groom Vouches, with hyperbolic archness Miles, and John Alden were Synonym